Madam Chair, I think what Mr. Kramp is referring to is the benefit of economy of parliamentary time, an economy of effort and energy.
Within the last few years that has not always been the case. I think the train of events that most members around the table will recall as the most serious of the cases I want to mention is the sponsorship scandal. In the winter and spring of 2004, at some times there were no fewer than three separate investigations going on at once by the public accounts committee, the Gomery inquiry, and several matters before the courts. They all took place more or less simultaneously. They all started at different times and ran different lengths, but they were all in parallel or in tandem.
Generally speaking, the same scenario occurred with respect to the investigation of the Privacy Commissioner, Mr. Radwanski. At one time I recall there were no fewer than six or seven different efforts to look at various aspects of Mr. Radwanski's tenure.
The same thing happened last fall with respect to the RCMP pension and insurance matter and more recently with the Linda Keen incident, for lack of a better expression. So while ideally it's good to have economy of effort, it's not always possible.