Yes, sir. First of all, you correctly described my view.
Secondly, what I was starting to explain was that one of the anomalies of the situation we're in today was that we anticipated that an emergency would probably continue for a considerable period of time. What wasn't raised at the time is what happens if the declaration is revoked before the committee ever meets.
I think somebody in the earlier section raised the point that when we envisioned this committee, we anticipated that the emergency would be ongoing and that this committee would play a supervisory role. There would be that constant parliamentary scrutiny of the government's actions. In this instance, the government withdrew the declaration before the committee was ever struck.
Indeed, the government might very well have withdrawn the declaration before Parliament ever voted on it, and an argument could be made that they should have done that. As a result, then, you are indeed defining, for the first time, what the role of this committee would be.