Thank you, Chair.
The motion, I think, is fairly straightforward: “That the Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan request the following documents prior to the appearance of Mr. David Mulroney”, and then they're listed: “all documents referred to in the affidavit by Mr. Colvin; all documents with the Department of Foreign Affairs written in response to the documents referred to in the affidavit by Mr. Colvin and...”.
Dispense? I will.
Mr. Chair, the documents that I have listed here--and in particular the last one--are at the dispense of the government. We've heard not only from Mr. Colvin about his desire to have those documents shared with the committee—and I asked him for those—but we also actually heard from General Gauthier and his desire to have the committee have these documents.
I think it's an entirely reasonable request. I don't think it's arduous. I know that we have a very sophisticated system of information dispensation in this city. I believe this could be done within a matter of hours, and it would allow us to do two things, Chair, and then I'll finish. It would allow us to have the information to have an informed discussion at committee in the area of detainee transfer, and it would also allow those of us who want to hear from Mr. Mulroney--of whom I am one--to be able to hear from Mr. Mulroney with information that he has access to. So it would essentially make it a more well-informed committee meeting.
So I ask this committee to request the following documents prior to the appearance of Mr. Mulroney.
I'll stop there, and thank you, Chair.