Okay, so that's the first point. If Mr. Ruff would clarify that, I would appreciate it.
The second thing is a question for Mr. Ruff as well. I am trying to envisage what an “after-action review” report is and how it would fit into our study. Obviously, I can't go into the discussion that we had earlier in confidence, in camera, but I would ask for his rationale for asking for this and how it would fit in with what we're trying to accomplish at committee.
I thought that our focus in this committee was about trying to understand how we move forward, and it sounds a little bit like this is about looking back to what happened before August 2021. I'm not clear on how that's relevant.
The first question is: what's the scope of this? I am not clear on that. The second one is: how does it help us achieve our goal as a committee? That would be question two. I am perhaps asking Mr. Ruff if he could clarify that.
I'll keep going, Chair, and then I'll let you decide the order of speaking and stuff.
Those are my questions for Mr. Ruff. Then I want to echo a little bit of what Ms. Damoff said during her intervention a moment ago. In her intervention, Ms. Damoff spoke to the timing of witnesses being brought forward. Assuming we can get our heads around what it is that we mean by these after-action reports and, secondly, how they re relevant, I agree with Ms. Damoff that bringing it forward now, when we have very a limited number of meetings left—I think it's two—and a deadline to meet....
I guess I'm trying to figure out why, if these things are important to the writing of the report, this motion wasn't brought forward a little sooner. That would have allowed the committee to consider this, hear from witnesses and cross-reference whatever information these reports would have with what we're hearing from witness testimony and ensure that the analysts can incorporate these properly. I don't know how these would help us constructively advance the report if they're being requested at this particular juncture when we are in the process of getting this report done by the committee's required deadline.
Those are the three questions I have, and I am hopeful that Mr. Ruff could help answer those for me.