Okay. The 106(4) meeting is now. We just clarified that at the beginning of the meeting. There is a 48-hour notice period required if the Conservatives want to request another meeting under 106(4). But you do not get two meetings out of one Standing Order 106(4). That's not even something the chair has to rule on; that's just very clearly what the Standing Orders say for committees. If the official opposition requests a meeting under 106(4), you can't then say that the NDP has now scheduled three meetings, with five members. We've had the meeting. In fact the chair was very clear about that in response to the question by Mr. Christopherson. We've had the 106(4) meeting. It is now. It's done.
If the Conservatives want to send in another notice they could, but the 48 hours would still apply, which means that we're talking about Thursday. So we're talking about a meeting on Thursday at 11 o'clock, if we're talking about due process. Unless we have now entered a circus zone, where the Conservatives just make up their own Standing Orders as they go along, defy the Speaker's ruling and defy everything, that would be a different kettle of fish.
Now since we are talking about a Thursday meeting, we certainly agree. But this is my question for you, Mr. Chair, and I'm very concerned about this. Since we are seeing such a complete destruction of due process by this government, we want to be able to question the deputy law clerk on a whole range of issues that came up in relation to this study, including the Speaker's ruling, the concerns and cautions offered by the deputy law clerk about the study itself, and the deputy law clerk's concerns about the systematic leaks by members of this committee. We raised concerns about that at this committee, Mr. Chair, and of course nothing has been done about it yet. We keep pressing the issue and saying that the idea that somehow committees can just leak everything that Conservatives have opposed in the past.... But certainly, personally there is no doubt that the issue of leaks is an important one.
I want to ask you, Mr. Chair, about the following. I am assuming that we will be able to ask the deputy law clerk those questions. However, in other committees we have seen Conservative chairs systematically ruling out of order any question not permitted by the Conservatives. I want to make sure that is not going to happen in this case. I think Mr. Christopherson probably has some things to add to that.