I just want to address this because Mr. Wark brought it up a few times, and it will be interesting. I will bring this conversation up with my colleagues in the NSICOP committee. In no way does my bill undermine the work that NSICOP does. I have no concerns about NSICOP's continued existence. I think there's a recognition across Parliament of the valuable work that NSICOP has been able to do, full stop. There is more than enough work that Parliament needs to do to tackle this.
Just to get to my point and why I asked this leading question about literacy around national security, the only way is to start down this path. People need to become more aware. There are loads of information out there. Parliamentarians, though, can't study it all. We're very dependent upon focused studies when some issue becomes the issue of the day, and that is the role of committees of Parliament, not a committee of parliamentarians, to actually provide that accountability and oversight. I think that's why some of this is important, because if you want to take the politicization out of the debate and out of the discussions, you need to have informed discussions, and you can't have those without having the level of detail.
I will summarize here in saying that my bill, again, doesn't guarantee access to anything. It will just allows parliamentarians the right to apply for a security clearance. Nobody will see anything or nobody get anything unless it has been worked out at the table at the respective committee and with the government of the day.