Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the opportunity to sit in again on the ethics committee.
I just want to say that I had argued at the previous meeting that I thought it was reasonable for the committee to see the documents related to the Prime Minister and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, and not Alexandre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau, so I do appreciate the amendment by Mr. Angus. I do appreciate the care with which the committee has now treated the documents.
I don't want to prolong any discussion on this amendment, which I support, but I do also agree with what Madame Vignola and Mr. Angus had said with respect to it. I don't want to prolong debate by proposing further amendments, but maybe there are other ways. For example, I do believe that members are allowed to have substitutes, and I would assume that any member is allowed to have a substitute in Ottawa to go to search documents in the clerk's office. As lawyers, we used to do due diligences with very secret documents, and there was a way to have a viewing on a website, where we couldn't copy or take screenshots of the document, etc. Maybe at a future date the committee will figure that out with the clerk and provide more access to members from northern Manitoba or regions of Quebec, which are harder to get to Ottawa from.
I think that's possible, but in the meantime I support the motion and I don't want to prolong getting to a vote on it.