Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Chair, I fully support my colleague's motion. What my colleague has put forward is a suggestion that Mr. Schreiber be allowed the time to consult his documents, to go home, read through those, and then return to this committee and be prepared to answer questions. Because these matters are not new to Mr. Schreiber. It's not as if he's being asked to testify about something that happened to someone else; these are his personal dealings. He has personal experience with this. I would think a little bit of refreshment--I can't imagine that he's had that much to do for the last couple of weeks, and as my other colleague pointed out, he did recently write a very lengthy affidavit. I cannot imagine that he has anything that he really needs to refresh himself on. But in the event that he does, we support that and give him the opportunity to refresh himself and come back to provide testimony.
Mr. Chair, based on the comments that have been made by Mr. Schreiber, I feel that this is nothing but an extradition delay tactic and has nothing to do with the truth. Canadians want the truth. They would like Mr. Schreiber to answer a few basic questions so that we can get to the truth. What they aren't looking for is for this to continue on and on, a soap opera type of hearing that is only going to allow Mr. Schreiber to avoid extradition to face very serious charges in Germany.