Mr. Chair, I'd like to respond to Mr. Wrzesnewskyj's point about the timing.
First of all, we asked that we simply wait to deal with this motion until we've heard from the legal officer of Parliament. That's what he's there for, to give us advice. As legal counsel for 25 years, I always advise my clients to get a little bit of legal advice before they go into any business venture or venture down any other path of procedure not knowing the actual legal viability or legal mandate of what they're trying to do. So I think that's something we could simply do by waiting until later today and not be wasting a significant amount of taxpayer dollars, as we might, by doing a multi-week or month-long study.
Second, as Mr. Hiebert pointed out, getting a ruling from the Speaker based on the opinion, I assume, from the same legal officer we're going to hear from later day presumably would not take very long. If we don't do that, we have to explain to the taxpayers we represent why we didn't get a legal opinion from a gentleman who's employed by the taxpayers to give legal opinions on matters just like this before we embark on a very expensive study. It just makes sense to me to do that.
Thank you.