I'm going to ask Mr. Garneau if he would consider withdrawing the amendment because we'd like to provide him with an option. We had a bit of a discussion about this, so hopefully we can reach agreement.
The convention already requires state parties to file annual reports and so we have been doing that and we're willing to do that. We're offering the opposition that we would be willing to strengthen those reports, if you want to call it that, or put a little more work into them and bring them to the committee here and allow committee members to call officials or call the minister if they chose to come to the committee. We would do an annual report focused on issues of such things as stockpiling, reporting on activities related to unexploded ordnance that we have in the country, advocacy efforts in general and, more specifically, Canadian advocacy efforts as well in dealing with this issue.
That's the offer we're making to them. If the opposition would like to make that into a report to Parliament we're comfortable with that.
I just joined this committee recently, but it looks as if it has done a good job of putting reports together on some of these smaller subjects, if you want to call them that, and being able to present them to Parliament. You just did that yesterday.
That's what we're offering. Rather than making this part of the legislative package, we'll make a government commitment to annual reports dealing with the issues I have talked about.