Thank you, Chair.
I must say that at first I didn't think this subamendment would be necessary after everything that has happened in the last week. I think there are a lot of embarrassed MPs at this table right now who decided last week to force this committee behind closed doors. Now, we have media outlets like The Globe and Mail, the CBC—I could go on and on—that are more worried about how it is possible that MPs around this table could shut out news from Canadians for 30 years. For 30 years, they will not know what happened in those meetings last week.
I thought, why would we need this subamendment? Why would we need it? There's no way that the MPs around this table would want to do that again after the embarrassment. They had to answer to their constituents. It's very difficult, I'm sure. There must have been an incredible number of emails and phone calls to their offices and their personal phones.
I'm sure they wouldn't want to go through that embarrassment again. Canadians want to trust us and want transparency, and all of us around this table know that, but I see now that just in case there is any chance that an MP sitting at this table—a Liberal MP in particular—might want to hide more news for 30 years, this amendment is necessary.