This is an area where I don't feel I have sufficient facts before me to render a firm decision one way or the other. I think it would be helpful if we were to take the opportunity to invite somebody in to provide us with additional information, someone who is an expert in this area.
I'd mention that the practice of inviting someone in or seeking some external testimony before the subcommittee to make a more well-informed determination as to votability or non-votability is one that has been practised in the past. I know this from experience, because it was done vis-à-vis an item of business that I myself brought before this subcommittee in the 38th Parliament, in which I proposed a resolution to amend the Constitution and they wanted further information about whether it would be votable. Ultimately they decided it was votable, but not until they set it aside to a second meeting and acquired additional information.
I would ask the indulgence of the subcommittee to try to do something similar in this case.