Respectfully, before you make decisions on the point of order, respecting the standing orders, I'm duly accorded the time.
Just so we're not setting a dangerous precedent in terms of what the expectations are, I would suggest that we each have, through our own offices, the ability to do research in preparation for committee. While it might be a courtesy that could be extended from time to time, I would just go on the record to state that I surely would have no expectations of any party, either government or opposition side, to provide me with their homework in advance. I'll just state that.
I'm a bit uncomfortable that we're going to start to put constraints on this. I'm saying this objectively, because it could happen to any one of us down the line, if we've done the work and we've gone through ATIPs and done all the stuff. As New Democrats, we don't necessarily have the resources to have big research policy bureaus, so we're doing it on our own with our incredible team, which is behind me here.
I just want to make sure that we're recognizing that this would be a courtesy and not some kind of precedent in this committee where we're going to start having to share our homework. I have no interest in that.
Thank you.