I'm not sure you want to know the answer. Never ask a question you don't know the answer to already.
The clerk has instructed me that it is my decision on whether it is a question of privilege or not among our committee. Once that decision is made, you all know you can overrule me. As I count the bodies very quickly in the room, I don't think we're going to win that vote. It's a question of whether we can go right to that and have a vote, or whether we will look at that.
The clerk also indicated to me that there's probably some merit here, and we could probably put this forward to the House. Once we have the question we'll still have to figure out what would go into the report. We will need to have some conversations on that.
So I'm going to put to the committee whether we think we have a question of privilege here. We'll hold that vote and then move forward to determine what that report may look like.
I will ask who thinks there was a breach of privilege--okay--and all those opposed.
All right, so it's carried.
Please give me one second here.
Thank you for bearing with me. It's great in Parliament that we learn something new every day.
I'm going to suggest that the researchers and the clerk put something together for us to look at on Wednesday. We have to submit a report to the House. That has to be put together in a certain way. Then I suggest we come back on Wednesday and have a discussion on what should be in the report. They're not going to take any sides; they will merely report the facts on what was said or wasn't said, etc. My suggestion is that we come back Wednesday and set aside two hours to go through the report.