Yes. The intern at the Liberal Party of Canada's summer internship program is automatically deemed to have the right to apply, because they need or might need to know at some point in the course of their work.... We're having this push-back here today that for a member of Parliament to have the right to apply for that same status is suddenly an issue for some reason. I go back to when we talked about capacity and challenges. I'm saying that there is a frustrating point when it's required to have this, and “capacity” and questions are used as push-back. The point is that members of Parliament should have the same right to apply. What comes afterwards, in many conversations today—and it's frustrating—is, “We have this challenge.”
Maybe you won't be able to provide this in writing, but I just want to give the context and hammer it home. Could you provide in writing to us how many intern applications were applied for and approved since 2021? My point is that, when there are 338 MPs who might apply and be given the right to apply, I go back to how, at the end of the day, it is very reasonable to do that for members of Parliament, who vote on the budgets that you work under and on legislation that you enact and enforce. I don't think it's unreasonable, and there shouldn't be any challenges to meeting this, so I think that's.... Could we have that number provided in writing, just to provide us with context?
Hopefully, what I've been able to outline is that we can get to yes on this. This is reasonable: It's very fair for members of Parliament to have the right to apply and, considering who is already deemed to have the right to apply on the need-to-know status, Mr. Ruff's bill on that is wholly appropriate and doable. I wonder whether you have any comments on that.