Perhaps you can help me to achieve this. I'm perfectly cognizant of the subamendment to Mr. Reid's amendment.
You mentioned the information that's available from the subcommittee, with respect to the legal context that the subcommittee was privy to but we were not. In consideration of that, I would propose that we add to the list of witnesses, after the fifth point, which reads, “and such other witnesses as the committee, acting as the committee of the whole and in camera”, in that we express the notion that the committee should also have available or distributed to it the text, the blues, or the minutes of the legal context that the subcommittee had access to in respect of these discussions.
In other words, we've heard that Mr. Walsh and one other representative of the House of Commons legal counsel had that. I respect the fact that the committee has decided it doesn't want legal counsel as part of our group of witnesses. Moreover, we've left that option open to us in the future, but not in the order that I proposed earlier in a subamendment.
Granted that, would it be possible that, at the very least and in addition to the order that has been proposed, we compel the subcommittee to release to us the information that was available to it from a legal point of view? I would say again that I believe it is important for us to have that proper context. Could we therefore add that as an additional item?
The amendment, in fact, is basically mapping out for us a course or a direction, if you will, as to how we're going to proceed on this important topic in order to get to the root of the issue. I believe that's an important piece of the puzzle. If we don't need a witness in there or if the committee doesn't want a witness in that order, then let's have the information available to us, at the very least.