Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I do agree that it's a good idea to reflect Mr. Page's previous experience, which I don't think has been noted here. I think it would be reasonable to add, perhaps in this paragraph, that “Mr. Page, who has”--well, I'm just quoting here--“more than 25 years in central government agencies and worked for Mr. Cappe at the Privy Council Office....”
I'd be happy to put that in. That's number one.
Two, I would be happy to include the quote as long as we include the entire quote. I don't want to include the back-and-forth with Mr. Lukiwski, because I think that gets awkward, but I do think we could start from where he responds to Mr. Lukiwski's question.
So I am moving that we add to this paragraph the entire quotation. I think we can leave off the word “Again”, which he starts with, but we would quote him as follows:
...there's information that's contained within the actual memorandum of cabinet. There's information that sometimes could be attached to a cabinet document. Again, the question is was this information presented just to cabinet, or was this information circulated widely? Was there an effort to keep this information truly secret? Most of the costing that I've done, sir, and in fact we see here--and my staff as well have worked at these central agencies--this information is broadly circulated in order to generate estimates.
If we include that, and we make reference to his past experience to show that he has the knowledge and the experience to give credibility to his words, then I think that would be appropriate.