Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I would not support the amendment. I think that the reason is quite obvious, really, and that is for us to do our work. We had compelling information that came forward from the officials and from the witnesses who came before us. To write a letter...some people would say, “What is the difference between a letter versus a report?” Well, there's a significant difference.
A letter is simply to say, “Here's what we heard.” A report will speak to recommendations and the government would have to respond to those recommendations as per the rules as they apply to committee. I think that there is value in that. I think there's value in that for the opposition, but also for the government members too. More importantly, I think there's a lot of value in that for the people who came before us.
I can't get out of my mind the victims, the survivors, and particularly Nadia, who spoke with us in her first meeting in the summer. It seems so long ago now, but it really wasn't that long ago. I remember meeting her at my office and how looking at her I could see how her trauma was haunting her still. In spite of that, she found the courage to come before us, to advocate, to do this work, and to continue to do this work. The work is not done. The job is not done. We've only just begun this work. In that process when we heard from the witnesses in the summer, I had always envisioned that the first phase of this work was to do this immediate 1,000-plus people in terms of coming forward, and that there were steps to follow. We all heard that at the committee.