Thank you.
I want to indicate that I think the committee should think carefully about whether or not it wants to hear these witnesses and that to disrupt the cadence of the questions and answers tends to take away from the importance of their appearance. I believe it's disrespectful for witnesses to have to sit there with this going on.
I'm going to ask members, please, not to raise points of order in the middle of a question and an answer and to respect the two rulings now that it is not appropriate for any member to plead the case of a witness. They have legal counsel here. As Mr. Walsh, the law clerk of the House of Commons, has laid out in his letter, they have an opportunity to make their case as to why a question may or may not be appropriate to answer, in their view, and the committee will decide.
So we're at the same point again, and I would ask Madame Redman to repeat the question so that the witness will have an opportunity to answer.