The motion as read says that this committee requests that Justice Iacobucci review the release of documents and information, etc., etc. As a member of this committee, I'm not prepared to recommend that Justice Iacobucci review anything, and particularly documents that this committee has asked to see and hasn't seen, and that Parliament has demanded be presented and have not been presented, in a fundamental challenge to the privileges of Parliament.
For this committee to support this is to go totally contrary to the privileges of Parliament and what we decided to do. We do not agree that Justice Iacobucci has a role to play from the government's point of view. If this committee had decided they wanted to do that, that would be a different matter, but we haven't decided that. We decided that the documents should be released.
Also, if we want to sit as a committee, by the way, and talk about in what manner we would receive these documents, whether it be a subcommittee, in camera, or in certain procedures, well, we're certainly capable of doing that. This is not what this is about.
This is an add-on to a government plan that has yet to be detailed and that we at this point oppose and will continue to oppose as long as it fails to respect the privileges of Parliament. So I certainly can't support this motion, although the notion that whatever inquiry that needs to take place includes going back to 2001 I think is already a given.