Mr. Chair, thank you very much. That was a good elucidation with regard to how we've operated, and I appreciate the fact that you spent the time with Mr. Reid to learn that and appreciate his service. I also appreciate the fact that you took the chair. In this committee, the chair position is voluntary, so you don't get an honorarium, and it is simply because of your desire to serve that you do that. With that in mind, I would like to ask that one of the first things the committee does is draft a letter of appreciation to Mr. Reid for the almost 10 years that he was the chair of this committee, and of course, he had enough experience and enough wisdom to be able to brief you, and I think that would be an appropriate act of diplomacy for us as our first act of this committee.
I'd like to also make one addition, and I apologize if I may have drifted off while you were saying everything in history, but I think there was one aspect that wasn't mentioned. We had a habit that when anybody who was involved in human rights advocacy in prominent organizations was in town, we'd try to interrupt our schedule and take advantage of that, because as a subcommittee, we don't have a large budget, and it costs to bring people from across the globe. Often people are in Ottawa for different reasons and we can capitalize on their being here and get a briefing from them. Maybe you could add that as part of the culture, if the rest of the committee is in agreement, that if another member knows of someone who's travelling through, we may consider to suspend the schedule to capitalize on that opportunity.