Very briefly, Mr. Chair, I had only one thing to say.
The reason we have an ethics committee is to apply the law that Parliament has written. If a situation arises that is not provided for in the law, I don't see how it would fall within the committee's purview to rewrite the law to take account of someone else's situation. If that's what we want to do, we have to ask Parliament to amend the law. I don't see how it's within the committee's mandate to summon someone who is only a volunteer. We all have volunteers in our respective political parties who help us write policy. Are we going to say that anyone who works for a political party can be summoned before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics? That seems very strange to me.
I therefore rather oppose this motion.