Thank you very much, Chair.
First, I'd like to thank Mr. Green for bringing forward this very important issue. I think it is absolutely in the right of the ethics committee to be delving into issues such as this, and they mean a lot in maintaining the public trust in our agencies and our democratic institutions.
I do have a couple of amendments to make to this motion, with unanimous consent, possibly, or the will of the committee.
First and foremost, I will ask that we restrict the timeline that we are going to study. Where it says, “That in relation to media reports that privacy breaches of more than 31,000 accounts at the Canada Revenue Agency”, I would like to add “between 2020 and 2023” to contextualize exactly what it is that we're talking about.
Then, I would also propose that we delete, right after that, “have gone unreported and resulted in the loss of millions of dollars”, because I think that is something that would be in the report, in what comes after or based on what we hear from witnesses. I don't think we should pre-empt any of the testimony.
I would also like to add a couple of witnesses to this. In addition to the Minister of National Revenue, Marie-Claude Bibeau, I think we should also add the commissioner, Bob Hamilton, and representatives from the Canada Revenue Agency to come to talk about this because, oftentimes, the way things are structured, this is not just a ministerial problem or issue that needs to be resolved. I think this is also an agency issue that they need to come to speak to as well.
I have copies of my amended motion that I can circulate, Chair, if that's okay, for members to look at while we discuss this.