Thanks, Mr. Chair.
In terms of process, the clerk has done a good job of bringing the witnesses to us, has given us advance notice of who those witnesses would be. We've had days with that in our inbox, knowing who was coming before us. It's not fair to the clerk to have her read our minds to figure out whether she has all the witnesses who may have been on other people's minds who weren't on her mind. I think the direction she followed was to get the right department in here so that we could talk about the enforcement of CEPA.
I was hoping to have a question come in about the relationship between the witnesses and the public prosecution services. It's important to see the separation there. I think Ms. Collins was going to this with her questions about whether the Prime Minister's Office was involved or whether ministers' offices were involved.
In terms of the identification of cases and then the prosecution of cases—to make sure that's done independently—that was being established by our witnesses today. They were setting forth a recommendation for prosecution for a case.
Now, the prosecution of the case has happened. Committees aren't prosecutors. We're not juries. We're a partisan group of people. This wouldn't be the place to get an impartial viewing on a case that Volkswagen is already being prosecuted for.
I think the process has been followed. We could have intervened at some point in the last several days to say, wait a minute, we wanted to hear from—