Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I think we are potentially going down a slippery slope with this request. Should it be allowed to proceed, not only would it contradict decisions made by your predecessor while sitting in that chair, it would also set an unfortunate new precedent: that we are going to be examining things that are not part of our mandate as a public accounts committee.
We have a lot of work ahead of us already. We need to stay on track so that we can get through the work that is clearly in the mandate of the public accounts committee. As has been stated earlier, we do not believe that this motion addresses work that is before the committee or should be before the committee, certainly not at this time, and it is already being addressed by another committee as we speak.