I thank you, first of all, for your overview. For those of us who haven't been on the committee for eight years, that was helpful. I am certainly in agreement with hearing from the commissioners. Obviously we're in a constituency week next week, but then we're back.
I want to speak to the point that the hon. member across the way made regarding the Clearview story that just came out in the media, regarding a breach of their client list and the implications of that. We all agreed around this table the other day that this was an exceptionally important study, looking at the issue of facial recognition for a number of different types of individuals, including racialized Canadians. I think the story that has just come out makes it all the more important.
I don't want to take away from the work of the subcommittee this afternoon, if it is meeting this afternoon, but I think there is a timeliness to being able to establish some scope for the study and being able to start taking witnesses. It's going to take a little while to get it up and running, but I think we should be doing that work ASAP and getting the ball rolling. If it's possible, coming out of that meeting today, I certainly want to suggest that it should be a primary focus as we start doing the studies that have already been put on the floor and accepted and adopted by the committee.