We may at one point want to have a discussion about bringing in studies that were discussed at an in camera meeting in the previous session. That could be helpful, but I'd like to build a bit on Mr. Viersen's thought.
We could come up with a shopping list. We all have our areas of concern. There are geographical areas. There are always gender issues. There are demographic issues. There are a lot of areas of human rights, and they could be about freedom of religion or beliefs.
What I was wondering about, though, maybe in addition to having in some of the luminaries who have been on the committee before—I've sat on the committee, not as a luminary, but many years ago as a permanent sub, and was involved in a lot of studies—is getting some expertise from some of the leading human rights people or organizations in the country. I was wondering about maybe having a meeting to get some flags from Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International, or even from UN organizations that deal with human rights, domestic and international, and to give them a chance to help to build our agenda.
It sort of builds on Mr. Viersen's comment to say that if we could take even one or two meetings where we invite some people—and we could invite them to do something in writing too—it also builds our rapport with the expert witnesses who we'll be calling on throughout the life of the committee. There's hardly ever a study we do where we won't want to bring in Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Latin American Working Group or various groups that we know of in the field. This would just help us, as new members of the committee, to build some relationships with them so that we could have a very good working relationship first, as opposed to tonight coming up with a shopping list and voting on each of them. I'd like to step back for at least one or two meetings to say, “Help us.” We build an agenda, we hear the flags and then we're able to do some pretty intensive work. That would be my suggestion.