I'll ask for the indulgence of the committee until the clerk and I are sure we have the motion in the exact wording, and I will read the whole motion into the record so that there's no argument later that I did not state the motion correctly or we don't know what the amendment is.
I think I have the amendment correctly stated. I'm going to read the amendment. It is moved by Mr. Reid:
That the fourth report be amended by inserting after the word “appear” in the fifth line the following:
in the following order:
(1) the Information Commissioner and such other witnesses as are necessary to establish which sections of the Access to Information Act may have been violated;
(2) Jeff Esau and Paul Koring of the The Globe and Mail;
I'm not sure that Mr. Esau is of The Globe and Mail, by the way. I believe he's a freelance. So we'll just say “Jeff Esau, and Paul Koring of The Globe and Mail”.
(3) Professor Amir Attaran;
(4) Jocelyn Sabourin of the Department of Foreign Affairs; and
such other witnesses as the committee, acting as a whole and in camera, decides to call.
So the motion as suggested to be amended, just so we all understand what we're talking about, reads as follows:
That the committee begin its study of the Department of Foreign Affairs' internal report, “Afghanistan 2006: Good Governance, Democratic Development and Human Rights” in relation to Access to Information requests for the document, by inviting the following people to appear in the following order:
(1) the Information Commissioner and such other witnesses as are necessary to establish which sections of the Access to Information Act may have been violated;
(2) Jeff Esau, and Paul Koring of The Globe and Mail;
(3) Professor Amir Attaran;
(4) Jocelyn Sabourin, Department of Foreign Affairs;
(5) such other witnesses as the committee, acting as a whole and in camera, decides to call; and further,
that the Clerk of the Committee request from the Department of Foreign Affairs a copy of the censored version of the report.
The motion is in order. It has been moved. Is there any discussion of the amendment?
I'll call the question.