I thank my colleagues for passing this amendment. Now we get to the main motion.
Mr. Chair, I'm going to raise an issue that is important to me, one that I hope you and my colleagues would also agree with. That is on the notion of what Ms. Shanahan just brought up in terms of the timing.
I think this main motion could easily be improved if we were to move away from the unreasonably tight time frame of 24 hours for the production of this material. I don't want anybody's alarm bells going off. I'm not looking to rag the puck on this one or to drag it out. I think it's eminently reasonable if we said, why don't we give them seven days, maximum, to produce these documents? If they can get it done in 24 hours I'll stand corrected and buy everybody a coffee. I would be really surprised if they were able to do it. I don't think any organization that gets caught up in political circles and the political gamesmanship that we have here on the Hill deserves it. I think it would stand to the good sense of the fair play of Canadians if we were to offer them up to seven day to produce this material.
I don't know if we are willing to have another meeting this week, but none is scheduled at this time. So I don't think that will affect the work of this committee. If we were to agree to this time frame, we would be acting reasonably.
I would like to poll my colleagues as to whether I should propose an amendment to this effect, given its entirely reasonable nature. I look forward to hearing from them, especially those who were not in favour of the amendment we just passed.
So I would like to know if my colleagues are in favour of this idea, especially Mr. Angus. It should not interfere with the work of our committee. I'll let the discussion run its course and then I'll come back at the end to propose an amendment. I hope my colleagues will support it.