Finally, some real democracy.
Mr. Chair, I have one last thing to add, if I could.
I didn't want to raise this as part of the debate, but verbally.... The rule that we have adopted now.... By the way, I am hoping that other committees will now look at this as a template. If they have something better, fine, but if they can't reach this bar, hopefully they would go to it, because this committee plays a leading role in Parliament.
I wanted to mention to you, Mr. Chair, that the motion says
That the Chair may schedule all or portions of a meeting to be in camera for the reasons listed above;
I only hope that, when you do that, you would show in the notice which clause it is that we are going in camera for, so the public—as well as we—knows what part of this motion gives us legitimacy for you to schedule us directly in camera.
Other than that, I want to thank colleagues.
For those of us who lived through the last regime.... I won't go on and on, except to say that democracy really was left at the doorstep. This is a real breath of fresh air. I want to thank the government. They said that they were trying to do things differently. It took us a little while to get here, but we did, and I thank the government for their willingness to consider this and to bring more democracy to our proceedings. It is a credit they deserve.
Thank you.