I'm a little concerned about the impression that's being put out there. I don't want to start getting a thousand calls to our members suggesting that we start bringing people out of prison on a motion of the House. If Mr. Martin put the sense out there that we had the authority, on a four-party agreement, to decide a mode of detention of any individual in Canada, that's absolutely false.
The detention is, as I understand it, federal custody, currently under the management of the Speaker, to facilitate the witness's presence here at the committee, and certainly not the decision of the four political parties in consultation on the disposition of any person in detention in Canada. I certainly wouldn't hope that the impression is put out there that we have that authority, that it's dealt with like that.
The authority is, I understand—and we have legal counsel here who may be able to clarify this—with the Department of Justice in consultation with the Speaker, as it exists now.
Am I correct?