Mr. Chair, before we do that, because I don't want to interrupt Mr. Fisher, I do have a point of order that I think will be helpful for future questioners.
I agree with you generally that, although I believe there's wide latitude for questioning before a committee, when the minister comes before a committee on COVID and spontaneously in his opening statements raises issues of Canada's rejection for a UN Security Council seat and his two mortgages, neither of which have to do with the COVID-19 study, he has obviously waived his right to restrict questions to COVID. A witness can't selectively decide which non-germane issues he wants to talk about and then restrict committee members from going into those. Just as a matter of policy, he's the foreign affairs minister; he has clearly raised issues beyond the COVID-19 issue, and I think committee members should be free to explore issues as they see fit. I think we should have that clarified before anybody goes further.