Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Am I to understand, then, since the government members are now suggesting it's redundant and not required, that in order to receive this additional documentation, no further motions would have to be adopted by the committee? We could either do this now or do it later. What I'm asking for is to actually establish a policy, through this motion, that the committee retain the right to summon these documents. And I'm assuming we would not require a motion to that effect down the road. If a certain line item in public accounts were to deserve a little more introspection and retrospection, we could ask for that information and have it received and maybe not even require a committee meeting over it.
I don't understand why committee members would, if it is a legitimate exercise, something the Comptroller General himself is suggesting the committee should retain the right to do.... I'll paraphrase some of the words of my colleague opposite. Either we think the Comptroller General is doing the right job or we think he is not. And if he's not, we should fire him. What the Comptroller General is advising this committee is to retain the right to review this information on an in camera basis. So either the Comptroller General is right or he's wrong.
All I'm asking for is something very straightforward and something very simple, something that is completely in the spirit of what the Comptroller General himself has proposed to us, which is, for the sake of clarity, that we simply add it to the motion and be done with it.