Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank my honourable colleague, the parliamentary secretary, for his earlier comments, but I would state quite unequivocally that I don't fish. If I did, I'd actually hook the right bait on and go catch it. This is about trying to glean information the best way we know how.
As you know, Mr. Chair, I've made a couple of attempts, and I think I've been cooperative, through you, Mr. Chair. Earlier on there was maybe a wider net. I listened to some comments and advice and tailored it more so that it became more reasonable and indeed was more specific so that it would give the opportunity for the government side to actually go and get those documents, versus having to go through a perhaps really onerous task of trying to find things, which may indeed have been very difficult for them to do. I have come forward with this in a spirit of cooperating, because that's what it seems to me we intended to do when we started out this process, through you, Mr. Chair. And I know you were part of that intent to make it a cooperative endeavour.
If indeed there's nothing in the documents, I guess I'll simply be up late at night reading them and then, when I'm finished with them, we'll shred them. All I'll have done is to actually find out a lot of things that are of no value to this committee, but may have been of value in some other form, in my understanding, about how the whole system works. That, unto itself, is of value.
It isn't so much, from my perspective as the mover of the motion, about trying to cast a net or go fishing. It really is about gleaning information that can be helpful to me, as a member, and that's why I brought it forward, ultimately for my understanding, to help me work through this entire process. As I've said here in committee and as I've said publicly, my goal at the end of this is to indeed work on public food safety, full stop. That's my intent.
I think, Mr. Chair, some will probably see that for what it is, and I hope they do. So I would hope that all honourable members would support the motion, although they may see it as perhaps a fishing expedition. But for those who truly know how to fish, perhaps you could help me with that, since I don't know how to fish, and you could bait the hook for me. Maybe I'll be able to catch the big one, one day.
Thank you.