Thank you very much.
I'd like to just correct the record to say that the person I referenced earlier, Kim Shore, is actually from Gymnastics for Change Canada.
I would like to go back to the notion of parliamentary privilege and the ability for Parliament to send for documents, which is quite contrary to what Mr. Noormohamed likes to think. I reference “The Power of Committees to Order the Production of Documents and Records”, a report of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, dated December 2009, in the 40th Parliament. On page three, it says:
Parliament is not bound by the Privacy Act, and has a right to have any documents laid before it which it believes are necessary. This principle was established in Canada through the Constitution Act 1867, which passed the “privileges immunities and powers” of the British House of Commons into Canadian law at the time of Confederation. The power to send for records has been delegated by the House of Commons to its committees in the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.
I would encourage the honourable member to read the Standing Orders of the House of Commons.