Chair, I have taken cognizance of this document very quickly, but as you yourself said, it's a very important document. I think at the very least, given the issues that are being raised within this document by the Office of the Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel, this committee should invite the law clerk and parliamentary counsel to appear before the committee to explain the significance--beyond what's in the document, because, as I said, I came back from the break between the witnesses and this was sitting at my place. With the debates that have been going on and the comments, etc., I've had possibly a total of three to four minutes to actually read it.
But from what I have seen, the passage Mr. Sauvageau read out, and your own statement that this appears to be a very important document, I would suggest that our committee invite Mr. Walsh to appear before it so that we can get a better understanding of the points he is raising and their significance.
The only thing I would add to that is that I had the honour and privilege of actively participating in the debates and the work on developing the Office of the Ethics Commissioner, the independent ethics commissioner, the actual code of conflict of interest for members of Parliament. In fact, when the House of Commons committee that was charged with developing that was doing its consultation, it invited the then-members of Parliament to appear before it to come and discuss it. I was the only member of Parliament who was not a member of that committee who actually showed up, and because--