Chair, before we move on to the last questions you're going to ask us, yesterday at testimony when we were considering the amendment LIB-6, which was regarding what would be the ability of individual members or senators to seek from the parliamentary budget officer a study on whatever matter relating to the federal government, I had asked the witnesses if that provision would provide individual members of the House or of the Senate...to ask any questions they wish for the PBO to consider.
Maybe my question wasn't clear, or the witnesses didn't understand the question, but the response was no. Subsequent to that, at the end of the testimony, I had a conversation with the witnesses, and they indeed clarified that, with the amendment, individual members and senators would have the opportunity to propose to the PBO a course of study.
I would appreciate, if it's possible, that the clerk seek a short written confirmation of that from the witness so that we could read that into the record. I think it's important for all members to feel reassured that, as members, they have that ability, and that was the purpose of the amendment that was being proposed.