Again, there are hundreds of thousands of pages that we all agreed needed to be produced to help provide facts and to help anchor our discussions and our investigations in facts because we are all committed to getting to the bottom of this important issue.
My colleagues have highlighted the incredible power of privilege for members of Parliament to produce documents and to call in witnesses to testify. We have availed ourselves of that power and of that privilege, and that power is absolute. However, if you actually read some of the rulings throughout history of Speakers Milliken, Fraser and Scheer, you will read cautions that we must use that power responsibly. You see that woven throughout history in the words that the speakers use.
We've never been shy about calling witnesses to testify here. What we're trying to do in this really unique situation that I have not encountered in my four years here and that I surmise Kelly, the chair, hasn't come across it in his 100 years here—