Just harking back to the annex in particular, it was a very good example. As you recalled, you chaired the committee hearing evidence on that one in a very timely way, and the committee produced a very good report at a very critical time. At the time the agreement was on the verge of going through, and it would have been a very bad agreement, and your committee report was one of many things that stopped it.
If you're going to do that, it's very important, of course, that you do it at the right time and have enough intelligence out there in the field to know when the right time is—but what you did was ideal, as you stepped in at exactly the right time and produced a report that helped to turn the issue around, along with a few other things. I commend you for doing that; it was the right thing to do at the right time and it did have a positive outcome.
So in your system, if you have some kind of intelligence that alerts you to these kinds of things and enables you to step in at the right time with an intervention, a report from a committee like this does carry an awful lot of weight with provincial governments, state governments, and others. So the timeliness is important.