As you know, I do not speak very often, but I simply wanted clarification about our mandate. In English, it states:
that, under the mandate of standing committees, “Public Accounts shall include, among other matters....”
In French, the words are "comprend notamment." The words "among" and "notamment" do indicate that the wording is not intended to be restrictive.
I would also add as a comment that we should stop using assumptions in our discussion. We are assuming that we want to do a certain thing, but the committee is grown up enough to decide what it wants to do. Earlier, for example, it was being assumed that Ms. Ouimet was on vacation. One wonders whether some committee members are not hoping that she might actually be on vacation or if they are not hoping to force her to go on vacation. I would like us to stop making assumptions and to be allowed to deal with the issues that we feel are appropriate. That is all I have to say.