Is the Auditor General free to go now, so I can just speak now to the committee?
I realize you've made a reference to the steering committee, that we send the issue there. Perhaps I could just try a suggestion, because if we can get a motion here, it will save us....
I'm not going to let go of this. I've made that clear. I'm going to keep pushing it, and I'm sure others are too. But it's not a witch hunt; it really is a matter of making sure that people are at least hesitant, if not outright afraid, to do this again down the road, at the very least. So there's some action, some follow-up, required. In the interest of trying to keep it as non-partisan as it can be, recognizing what we're dealing with, could I just ask...and I'll leave it to you, Chair, whether you want to take this as a motion. I'll read it to you and leave it in your hands.
I will move “that the government provide a representative to the public accounts committee to explain the investigation process and timelines regarding the leaked Auditor General report”.
I can't think of anything less dramatic or less headline-grabbing than to just ask at this stage a similar kind of meeting. The government could pick whatever representative they want just to come in and let us know what the process is and the timeline. We can either say that's fine and we'll wait or not; that's up to us then. But that's what I would propose, as a solid step to keep this in focus but not pretend in any way that this is more important than what we're going to talk about tomorrow. It's not. I just don't want this to get lost, Chair.
So I leave that with you, and I'm in your hands.