Thank you for letting me speak to this issue, Mr. Chair.
I agree to some extent with what Mr. Kramp is saying. As a rule, the committee works relatively well. Had the whole question of the renovations to the Parliamentary Precinct not surfaced in the media, we would be carrying out this study today and getting information. We might not be doing exactly what Mr. Bains is proposing we do in his motion, but we would be examining the report and all of the contract details in a collegial manner, without political partisanship and without the focus being on stories in the news. Our attention would not be focused on media reports.
Earlier I was suggesting—and Mr. Kramp seemed to agree with me—that we ask the department to send us on a daily basis the documents as they become available, while bearing in mind the November 19 deadline for providing the committee with all of the documents. That would mean we would receive the documents as they become available in both languages.