We do follow the work of the committee very closely, since its core mandate is to study ethical issues. It is my committee, if I can put it that way. As far as the act is concerned, this is the committee I report to. We follow the work of this committee, and of other committees but to a lesser extent. We follow, for example, the work of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, which administers the Conflict of Interest Code for Members.
We take careful note of testimony, but we cannot use it directly as it is protected by the principle of parliamentary privilege. As I said earlier, we asked the Speaker for permission to use them and he referred us to the Standing Committee on Finance to seek that permission, which we did three days ago.
If something has been said before the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, we will take the same steps with your committee.