Thank you, Chair.
Mr. Hiebert raises some very good points about the necessary work that should be done to review the Privacy Act. There was a bill introduced yesterday on identity theft, which may in fact end up at this committee. We don't know. We're not sure who's going to deal with it. My only reservation is that if we do support Mr. Hiebert's motion, it would be with the codicil that we would be opening the Privacy Act perhaps after the Mulroney-Schreiber affair, perhaps after other choices we make as well. I know I have a motion in to study the Access to Information Act, which I believe needs work even before the Privacy Act.
I don't know how we would move an amendment, but I would ask Mr. Hiebert if he would consider an amendment to his motion, which I haven't seen, actually, circulated. I don't know exactly what it says. If you would consider an amendment that if we do vote in favour of Mr. Hiebert's motion, we undertake this study after the Mulroney-Schreiber affair, and possibly after other priorities as well....
The subcommittee can set that out, but I don't want Mr. Hiebert to misunderstand my voting for his motion, that I think it should be the first order of business.