Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I would like to thank each of my colleagues for taking the time to thank me. We could go on like this for much longer. I could speak at length, but that is not my intention either.
One of my colleagues talked about mitigation measures and suggested that we all decide together. I am open to that. That said, we have to remember that those mitigation measures are generally suggested by health care practitioners. In the end, we will just have to say yes or no to the measures. The parties in question have to be involved.
As to the precedent involving the Sergeant-at-Arms, this is not recent, but I want to point out that John A. Macdonald was taken into custody. The first prime minister of Canada was taken into custody on order of the Sergeant-at-Arms. I imagine that the witnesses who have repeatedly refused to testify are just as important as our first prime minister. I'm not joking; it is in the books.
The power of a Sergeant-at-Arms to issue arrest warrants dates back to 1543, when the British House of Commons asked the Sergeant-at-Arms to release a Member of Parliament that the City of London had imprisoned. The Sergeant-at-Arms prevailed.
That is the first instance of the Sergeant-at-Arms exercising the power to issue arrest warrants. So there are precedents. There are precedents dating back to long before Canada existed and that are all in the House of Commons Procedure and Practice, if you choose to consult it.
In closing, thank you for sharing your thoughts on my subamendment regarding ArriveCAN. This application was not created internally, and a number of subcontractors were needed to make something out of it. It did of course save some time and allowed Canada to continue trading with the United States. It would have been even better if, instead of costing one or two dollars per user, it had cost 15, 20 or 25 cents per user. In terms of final cost per user, one aims for maximum efficiency. That was not the case here.
Some 177 changes were made to the application, but we do not have any information about those changes. We do not even have information about the 25 most important changes. Were they warranted? How were they done? How much time was spent making those changes? We do not know because the documentation was not completed, the Auditor General says. It is not me, Julie Vignola, the member for Beauport—Limoilou, who is saying that. I am telling you what the Auditor General said.
I wanted to make that clear, in relation to my subamendment and the importance of not creating precedents. We are not creating any; they already exist.