Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank you, Monsieur Denis and Monsieur Parent, for coming before the committee today. I appreciated your testimony, in particular your closing statements, where you were talking about a couple of things: the right to a fair process and independent third parties. I think generally speaking Canadians would expect, even though we're in a unique set of circumstances, that we would have some fair, impartial process.
I want to turn just for a moment to O'Brien and Bosc, page 215 in the English version, with regard to the conflict of interest code for members. Of course I won't read the four objectives, but I want to touch quickly on them. In part (a) it says “maintain and enhance public confidence”, and in part (b) it says “provide a transparent system by which the public may judge this to be the case”. They're talking about members not putting their private interests ahead of their public interests.
Do you think we could use something like the conflict of interest code for members, not the conflict of interest code itself but the mechanism of having a third party process, appended to the Standing Orders to make sure there is that fair, transparent process so that Canadians could actually judge if how we're investigating ourselves is done appropriately?