Thank you very much, Mr. Garrison.
I'll take the opportunity now, on behalf of all committee members, to thank our witnesses who have come here today with their very compelling testimony.
We really appreciate your contributions. We'll say goodbye to you. You're welcome to leave at this time, if you like.
Very quickly to committee members, I want to give a response to Mr. Garrison's earlier inquiry about invitations to ministers.
I looked into the precedent, and also into the witness lists and the notes from the subcommittee. In our subcommittee meetings, we only discussed the presence of and invitations to officials, and not to ministers specifically, for this study. When the witness list was circulated to members, the ministers were also not included, by any party, on the compiled witness list.
I checked precedents as to how we have operated in the past, and I realized that it's only with government legislation where we have the minister. We invite the minister to that first meeting when we have government legislation before us. I also looked to see what our procedure was with our last study, the coercive conduct study, and I noticed that we didn't invite ministers, we only had the department officials.
That's kind of the framework within which we are entering this study. To address the question as to why ministers were not invited, it's because they were not on any of the witness lists from any members. I just thought I would give you that update.
If there are any questions or concerns at this time, please raise your hand.
Not seeing any, in that case, we will now adjourn the meeting.