Thank you, sir.
My first comment would be that we're the standing committee, the comité permanent, so we're a “new” old committee, an ongoing committee. “Standing” means permanent, but the membership is all new, as is the chair, and the committee is master of its own proceedings. This new committee can decide to do whatever study it wishes.
Committees in the past have appropriated to themselves testimony heard in past Parliaments, but the new committee actually has to make that decision, to adopt the motion. The term escapes me. There's a term for that: we adopt evidence heard in past Parliaments, make it our own in this Parliament, and use it to base our conclusions on or to pursue our studies. We can do that. We can go into the past and see what we've heard, make it ours in this Parliament, and continue. Or the committee is free to go wherever it wants.