My comments are very simple, Mr. Chair. If it means that some members need to have 10 or 15 minutes to read it so we can go on to clause-by-clause, we've used up that much time in this discussion.
The only thing I would ask is that Mr. Lobb and any members who suggest that when a committee asks for information...to say show me the correspondence for all of the other requests...we don't have to request.... When standing committees ask the minister or officials or anyone for documentation, and they make a commitment to send, there is no need to follow up. In fact the onus of that is on the chair or the clerk to follow up to get that information. The onus is on the minister and the officials to get it in good time for the committee to use, not for us to have to chase it. I just want to make that clear; that is proper procedure.