Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
There's one fundamental issue that we need to remember as a committee, and that is that it's fine for us to study issues of policy—Mr. Kramp mentioned the accrual accounting example. I don't see any problem with two committees studying policies and coming up....
Here we're talking about delving into a specific case that has already been referred to an officer of Parliament who has been appointed by Parliament. It seems to me it would be wise for us, as much as possible, to stay out of looking at those individual issues, as opposed to looking at the broader policy issues, at least until that person has had a chance to respond to us.
We're constantly getting into the minutiae of the administration, when we have officers who are appointed to deal with any misappropriations or misdealing. Our responsibility is to frame policy to help avoid those kinds of scenarios. I think we're getting off on all kinds of rabbit trails.
I really believe it's important that we pass this amendment, so that we wait until after the Ethics Commissioner has reported.