Thank you, Chair.
I appreciate what Mr. Williams is saying. I'd be interested to hear what other members might have to say, as to whether or not an exception is warranted at this time.
I agreed at the get-go that all of this should have been in both languages. It should have been run through the committee leadership well ahead of time, but that didn't happen.
I want to put on the record, in fairness to the RCMP officers who are presenting, that I can recall one or maybe two occasions when we gave that exception because there was so much, because there were e-mails, and all members of the committee were in support of it. It's not totally unusual that the RCMP might have expected that background reference attachment material would be allowed.
I want to put that on the record to be fair. We have gone this route with RCMP background material before.