At the risk of being repetitive, I think that when we're taking a look at this committee and taking a look at the future business of this committee, clearly this is an issue that is of very high interest to all of us on this committee, and to many Canadians. That isn't the question. The question is would passing this motion end up effectively, if not tying the hands of the steering committee, throwing a weight to this that may or may not be proper in light of the other things the steering committee may be wanting to take a look at.
I remind the committee that the original purpose of this Afghan special committee was to be able to have information come out and be distributed, disseminated to the people of Canada. I don't think that when the committee was originally struck there was ever any idea that it was going to be an inquisition committee. That can be part of it; I'm not suggesting that it can't be part of it. But I think there is more to this committee than this aspect, as important as it may be. Rather than putting all of the weight of this on the steering committee before they even meet, I fail to see what the haste of passing this motion is.
As a consequence, I would move to table this motion.