Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I will introduce a routine motion that was passed by the Standing Committee on Finance.
I believe it was adopted earlier today, so the meeting minutes may not have been prepared yet to show that.
This motion was proposed by Liberal members on that committee, I believe, and adopted by the committee. It's a very simple motion.
I move:
That the committee authorize the clerk to distribute all committee documents to Mr. Alex Ruff.
Let me explain the logic behind this motion.
Mr. Ruff was an infantry officer in the Royal Canadian Regiment. I see him actually looking at me on the big TV screen in front of me. He served in six operational deployments overseas, two of which were Operation Athena in Kandahar province in Afghanistan, and in the city of Kabul, in 2007 and 2012.
He also served in Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq from 2018 to 2019. He may, from time to time, sit in on this committee to participate as one of the members of this committee. He would like to be on the same email list of members of this committee who receive documents from the clerk, so that he can keep track of the committee's business and participate in the proceedings when he substitutes in for one of the four of us here.
I note that the finance committee did a similar thing with Mr. Fragiskatos, who was recently appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue. He has been put on the distribution list through a routine motion adopted by the finance committee, so that he can keep track of the proceedings of that committee.
That's simply the reason for moving this motion, and I hope committee members will support it.
Thank you, everyone.
