It is in order. Okay, thank you.
The first amendment I'd like to make is to take out the word “urgently” from the second sentence—I'm sorry this is only in English, as I don't know what the French is—so that it would state, “That the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics address.... ” So the word “urgently” would come out.
The reason I'm moving this amendment—which is debatable—is that we, as a committee, put together an agenda. We had a meeting just on the agenda, if I recall, and talked about what we wanted to do. The word “urgently” tells me that we maybe would want to pre-empt, as we have today, other speakers on identity theft, which I'm not sure is actually Madame Lavallée's approach. The word “urgently” means that we will suspend other work.
I'm going back to my other motion—not moving it, but just talking about the principles in it. In principle, I believe you're not going to get any good answers from anybody while we have this in front of the Information Commissioner. He can come and say whatever he wants, that he's sorry, he can't answer this; that he's sorry, he can't answer that. It's not that he wouldn't want to answer or the staffers wouldn't want to answer; it's just that they can't.
So “urgently” means a suspension of the work. I think we've done a decent job as a committee, working together over this past year, on PIPEDA and a number of other issues. And Madame Lavallée indicated there was a government motion to look at another item, which she read from the blues, dealing with something that had a specific need, on which I think we all worked together and got an answer and moved on.
I'm not afraid of any answer in this case, but I think the word “urgently” sends the wrong message. And we will not, as a committee, attain anything usable other than having a few witnesses and holding a meeting or two, and nothing else will happen.
So my motion, which is debatable, is that the word “urgency” be removed. I apologize for not knowing what it is in French.
That's my motion, Mr. Chair, at this point. I have others after that.