I would be fine with asking for a list of all the trips, including domestic ones, but I think we should focus on international trips for the time being and use the Order Paper questions to find out more about the trips within Canada. If we see anything inappropriate on that side as well—so not just in international travel—we could decide to include that in our study.
As for the list of years, it's not that I disagree. It's simply that I don't understand which criteria we would use to determine what is an appropriate baseline trip or year and what isn't. Would it be 2014, 2015 or 2017? Call me a bookworm, if you like, but I prefer to have all the documents, as opposed to just half. The period referred to in my motion is from 2015 to 2022. That's my criterion: seven years. You're proposing six. Would that make a big difference in the number of documents? I don't know.
I appreciate that this covers a large number of documents, some of which are archived and would need to be compiled, analyzed and so forth. Anything having to do with the Governor General is kept. After all, we still have documents pertaining to King John and Richard the Lion-Heart, so I understand that. What concerns me, though, is how we are going to determine which years and trips constitute appropriate baselines, when we could do an initial analysis and then decide which trips we are going to focus on.
For that reason, I'm going to keep my motion as is. I'm fine with removing the reference to Canada, as long as we not rule out the possibility that we may need to examine domestic travel at some point. I need clarity on how we are going to determine which years and trips we're going to look at.