Thank you very much. I will take my time.
Mr. Beatty, thank you for your sober reflections.
I would share many of the points in your analysis of the need for this committee to hopefully provide for Canadians some recommendations that will provide future instances of emergencies with clear parameters through which this emergency order should be invoked. In those remarks, I'm reflecting on this committee's task of trying to contemplate the difference between the inquiry, which would likely be more judicial in nature, and that of the legislative process.
Being a former legislator yourself, would you agree that in the full contemplation of the conditions leading up to the emergency, it would be appropriate for us at this committee to contemplate those things, to hear those testimonies, in order to be able to provide at the end of this process a fulsome set of recommendations and report back to the House and to the Senate, and that they may then become future frameworks for legislative amendments that might better guide the government?
Would you agree with that?