Thank you, Mr. Chair.
If we request documents, it means that we are asking for all the documents related to each of the expenses, whether it's $400, $4 million, or $10 million. I believe that we should initially ask for the list of expenses, not a list that contains only the final amounts, but a detailed list of all the various expenses. It would then be altogether reasonable to ask for the documents related to the major expenses, or to call a witness to explain them to us. Otherwise, asking for all the documents would mean that we want all the documents, including everyone's emails, and searching through all this information would be a very heavy burden. And it would all have to be translated. That doesn't make any sense.
The first thing to do is get a list of expenses. Afterwards, we could either ask a witness to appear so that we could asking questions about these expenses, or we could request and study the related documents specifically tied to the major expenses.
I honestly don't know how many different expenses there were, but I know that the related documents might be difficult to obtain and that there might be a lot of them.
When all is said and done, I'm in favour of Mr. McCauley's argument. We could discuss this before Friday and come up with a solution. Voting today to obtain all the documents would simply amount to putting a very heavy burden on everyone.