Well, I don't know. It's a good thing we don't have to be at bazooka lengths or have to talk or text, but you get my point.
At this committee, like at public accounts, the two swords' length just don't exist. It just happens to be that you sit over there and I sit over here. In fact, I don't think I'm telling too many tales out of school in terms of the trip that you and I and Mr. McColeman went on to London to see how they did things in the mother ship, but we came away with some great ideas and gave them a great idea—something they didn't know.
There's a great approach in that committee room. Anybody who comes in and hasn't been there before says “wow”. They say that they haven't been in a room where everybody respects each other and where there are no games, where they're all nice, they all get a chance to have their say, they compliment one another, and they build on each other's ideas. Really, I've talked to people who drop in on the current public accounts committee, leave, and then say, “Wow. Why can't all the committees be like that?”
Ours is very similar. Ours at PROC is even more difficult, because at least in public accounts you're all focused on the report of the Auditor General. That and ancillary issues are pretty much the business. Here, we get virtually everything. Every time the Speaker has a problem, a dilemma, a concern, a question, or is unsure, it's boom, off it goes to PROC. “I'm going to send this to PROC,” the Speaker says, “that's my decisive decision, and they're going to figure it out.”