Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I don't think this is a question for the law clerk, but I have a question for the committee members. We didn't consider inviting Ian McDonald, who is the head clerk of committees, to this study. The reason I'm asking this is I'd like to understand the implications for committees.
If a committee like ours is doing a study on foreign interference, and we want to have access to specific information that is deemed classified, how would it work and how would this affect committees?
I'd like to ask the committee members.... I don't want to delay this. We're doing clause-by-clause next week, I believe.
If it's the will of the committee, could we have our clerk write to Ian McDonald, asking him specific questions, so that we can consider the implications on committees of this bill passing? Is that okay with the committee? I don't want to delay this, but could we write to the head clerk and ask how this pratico-pratique would function?
I just want to ask everyone if they're okay with that. Again, it's not to delay this at all. I'd just like to ask what the implications would be.