Mr. Chair, as a last point, I expect, before we go to a vote, this is clearly and absolutely the committee that should deal with the Auditor General's report as it relates to Correctional Services of Canada. How many people, I wonder, on the public accounts committee have been dealing with these correctional issues as we have with the committee? How many inmates have they talked to? Have they been within any prison systems? Do they understand the scenarios within those prison systems, the rehabilitation programs, the parole boards, as we have gained experience doing as public safety committee members?
Clearly, the only committee that can really raise the hard questions with the Auditor General that need to be raised are the members of this committee. There may be some on public accounts, but that's why the Auditor General breaks his report into several sections. He just doesn't give a report overall on government business. He gives a report in the areas of jurisdiction that he's looking in to find specific programs.
I would suggest to government members on this committee that if they vote against bringing the Auditor General before this committee when it is a report dealing with this committee's issues, then they are being irresponsible in terms of their responsibility to Canadians on the issue of public safety.
That's where I stand. I would hope that the members of the government...because some hard questions need to be asked. I don't agree with everything the Auditor General says in here, by the way. We do need to ask some hard questions in terms of the analysis. But the end result of the report is really worrisome in that Canadians' public safety is being put at risk because of this government's strategy on how it handles the correctional service system of Canada. It's very important that we hear the Auditor General at this committee.