From all the years I've been here, I think this opens the door for independents. I think it's the start of showing some respect for all members of Parliament, right? It doesn't matter if you're independent or if you belong to a party. I wonder if it's opening the door enough. If you say it's for a bill, and in 90% of our time we're doing reports.... I don't know, maybe we can be a little more ambitious in the agriculture committee. I'm using a hypothetical situation. Let's say we're doing a report that is very particular to a riding that an independent sits on. Why couldn't we have that independent come here during the report, rather than just bills? I'm just throwing that out.
This is very specific, that they can come, but only for a bill, for legislation. But technically, they're still not allowed to have any input into a report, and the report could have a lot of bearing on what's happening in their riding. Why don't we leave that to the discretion of the chair, or whatever, that if a report is being done and an independent asks to be invited, if the report is of particular interest to them or their riding, we could have the discretion to let them come to committee when we're at the final stages of the report, and to also introduce some clauses?