Thank you.
I would concur in the spirit that I believe we need a mechanism in place that would receive the substantive information documents, evidentiary proceedings not just of the commission, but also, in my opinion, of some of the civil proceedings to help us get that greater disclosure that we have been unable to have provided to this committee by the government.
However, I don't think it is feasible to have staff do daily reviews of the proceedings. I have tried. These are nine hours a day on the inquiry, with lots of information, and I just don't know that it's feasible to have daily reports on witnesses and summaries to that effect.
However, I think for the documents and evidence that are presented there could be a process, whether it be weekly or whatever would seem most feasible, to allow us to get that information to be part of our reports and part of our summaries.
Maybe there's a point in time in this committee that we set aside specifically to look at the findings of that inquiry, because I think it's safe to say that we are not likely to be wrapped up before that happens, given our scheduling challenges here.
With that being said, I personally can't support this as it's presented, just given some of the institutional challenges.
I will make one more note here that I have been informed that if we do want to go outside to get some kind of consultant's support on this, it is a much longer process and it's one most likely bound by the collective agreements of the Hill that would suggest that we would need to prove that's not something that could be done here. From a labour perspective, as a good New Democrat, I would flag that. I will not be in a process as a chair where I'm getting grieved by the committee.
With that being said, I will end my comments there and take the chair back.
We have Mr. Fortin.