I want to just state that one of the challenges I'm having with this committee is the notion that we were struck in a special way and sworn in. It's the first time I've been sworn in to a committee like that, which I assumed would have granted us a deeper access into documents.
First of all, I'm a proponent of open and transparent government. I don't know what we're going to get, but my concern is that this committee is, in many ways, being relegated to the same threshold of openness and transparency as the public, and we hopefully have a much higher mandate that that.
I'll just state on the record now that I am supporting the way in which we've modified this motion in good faith and that we will get substantive information. I'll even state on the record that, should information contained within the documents as submitted to this committee require us going in camera for review, then that's something we should expect to do, but if what we end up getting are things that would generally be available to the general public, then I would state for the purpose of the record that it would be a great disservice to this committee. That would, in fact, undermine, I think, the principles through which the House and the Senate sent us here, and it would create a whole other subset of problems down the line.