Thank you, Mr. Chair, for accommodating this question.
Mr. Tilson stole my notes and asked the question I wanted to ask, but I think for both he and I this whole idea of procedure and how this works is important.
As a committee we were on a whole other stream. This event came along. We're trying to study it. Now it appears as though investigations are going on, certain things are happening. Perhaps we're slowly running our course on this, I don't know. But as a committee, this has introduced us to some new realities. For instance, if I hear the word “redacted” one more time, I've learned I probably won't be able to stand it.
But obviously there are some flaws I think that we have seen as a result of this, the last few weeks of testimony we have had. One was indicated by Ms. Sabourin, who said that when a request came in she tried to follow certain guidelines that come from the Treasury Board. As a result of some of these guidelines perhaps not being updated, she voiced that she thought they should be. I think you, Mr. Alexander, said you concurred with that. I think Mr. Dewar was talking about an audit and similar types of things. I presume that is going to be done. After this particular case is over, we have to move ahead as a committee on to other things. But we want to make sure we tidy up whatever is seen to be perhaps some weakness here.
Could I ask you, if you were going to update these guidelines, how long a process that is? I'm not going to ask you what you do because I think Mr. Lemieux answered some of that.