Thank you.
Although it may look like we're giving you a hard time, Monsieur Guimont, we're trying to get our framework renovated--no pun intended.
In your remarks earlier you were very frank that you communicate with and link up with the Board of Internal Economy and the Senate counterpart--the BOIE and the COIE. Nobody around this table is connected to BOIE and COIE. You referred to them as the two committees, but they are totally dysfunctional and disabled when it comes to transparency. Nothing that goes on in those so-called committees is ever public; nor is there any linkage between those committees and, in the normal course, members of Parliament.
So can you think of a way of overcoming this disability that may be there? As you've been trained to do, asked to do, or whatever, you're dealing with what you think are committees of the House, when they're totally disconnected from the day-to-day operations of the House, as most MPs see it.
I'm not being negative about those two bodies—they have a statutory function to fulfil—but they do not have a committee function that would represent the House in a fulsome way in the kinds of matters we're dealing with here. Maybe you weren't aware of that, but that's one MP's view. Do you think you might find a way to overcome that?
There are other committees. The procedure and House affairs committee, for example--and there's a counterpart in the Senate--would be a more typical committee to deal with. Can I just throw that issue at you?