Mr. Chairman, what this recommendation calls for is a national security committee of parliamentarians. I know your point is that there is money spent for staff under this.
I would submit, though, on this amendment as in others coming forward, that probably about 90% of our witnesses called for such a body as is in this recommendation to do proper parliamentary oversight, which the government is opposed to. I understand that. They shouldn't be.
In any event, my point, Mr. Chair, is that whether it's out of scope, whether it's because it requires a royal recommendation, the fact is that at this committee we heard a lot of evidence calling for such a body, and the government in its own—