Following along those lines, obviously you're suggesting as well that we need legislative reform for these items to actually be in place.
Now, we know that in March 2012 there was a motion adopted in the House by all parties requiring the government to table legislation by September, which didn't happen. We're eight months later and we still don't see the reform legislation that we're all anticipating. The NDP did deposit our own bill in October in an effort to actually put forward some of the principles you just mentioned.
I have three sub-questions relating to this.
One is, would the investigation likely be more effective or be different if what you're recommending now were in place? Second, if we are able to get this legislation before us—we haven't seen it—and it eventually gets passed, will that still help with the 2011 events? These are procedural investigative powers, and presumably they can apply to events that occurred before. I want to make sure I understand that that's correct. The last question is, how soon do we need to have this legislation?