Might I suggest, with all respect to my colleagues on all sides, that this issue is so important to the operation of Parliament that there should be a special committee meeting and/or a special set of committee meetings set aside so that we can discuss the pros and the cons and come up with a definitive direction so that we have a conclusive decision. Let's have all of our witnesses from the Auditor General's department and from the Treasury Board. Let's bring them in here. Let's convene a separate set of special meetings to deal with this issue so we can come out of this, and within this parliamentary process have a clearly defined road ahead for all of our officials, to be fair to them. They need direction as well, and they need to know that they have a government in support of their direction. So let's let them all make their case, and let's come up with a collective decision and make that recommendation to Parliament.
On June 13th, 2006. See this statement in context.