Let me briefly, Mr. Chairman....
I think we're not giving enough weight to the Speaker's warrant. I understand Mr. Tardi's point, that the current arrangements are tripartite in a way: the custody of the Province of Ontario, and then escort by other police, and then once he got into the precincts the Sergeant at Arms took over.
But in fact it's a Speaker's warrant. He's in the custody of the Speaker, and it's within the power of the Speaker to dictate the terms and conditions of the custody. That's the legal advice that we have.
My motion is simply a recommendation as well, Mr. Chairman, to the Speaker: that if this committee agrees Mr. Schreiber would be better off in his own home under supervised house arrest, if you will, we would recommend strongly to the Speaker to make it so. And I argue it is within the power of the Speaker to make it so.
The last thing I would add is that you can't possibly believe this guy is a serious flight risk, if that's the reasoning behind it. I don't believe it.