Actually, I don't disagree with him. I think what I was saying in the Ottawa Citizen was misunderstood, and I wish it hadn't been edited the way it was.
Committees can do whatever they want. They can basically sit in between sessions, as the Afghan committee did during the prorogation. The only problem is that the witnesses will not be covered by parliamentary privilege. I know that firsthand, because I appeared before the Afghan committee during the prorogation period and I was acutely aware that I did not have privilege. That's actually the reason I decided—I think I was the first one who said—that there was a clear breach of privilege in the refusal to hand over on the detainees. I knew when I was presenting it that there was no parliamentary privilege on my behalf.
So committees can do basically whatever they want. The only problem is whether or not the witnesses will be covered by parliamentary privilege.