First, thanks to Ms. Block for tabling this motion.
The only part that we have concerns around is that after “McKinsey & Company”, it says, “that the draft report be considered by the committee in public”.
I did also seek some advice on this. The feedback I got was that doing drafting in public is actually not normal and could set a bad precedent for the future. What was highlighted in the recommendations I got was that drafting the report in public can add unnecessary political theatre to the study. That has permeated some of our meetings already.
Canadians expect the committee to deliver meaningful recommendations to the government. Turning the drafting into what we've seen in the past, which is theatre and I think unnecessary delay, could be a problem for the work that OGGO needs to do. All parties on the committee have the opportunity, obviously, to disagree or to add to the conclusions of the committee's report through supplementary and dissenting reports. That is the norm in any committee I've been on and in any report that I've been a part of. Public disagreements can be shared through those avenues without disrupting the work of the committee.
That's just the feedback that I wanted to relay from the NDP. I really appreciate Mrs. Block's bringing this forward so that we can get the clerk to work on this.