On that, I'd make two points, and this goes less to law than it does to culture.
Mr. Atkey, who appeared in front of you, was the first chair of SIRC. Mr. Atkey, in the course of being chair, established a culture at SIRC that was quite robust and probably made more of that body than many people feared it might, so the initial culture of this body, which means the initial staffing and the initial focus and resourcing, will have an impact in terms of how it's perceived. If it starts off on the wrong foot, with the wrong people, the wrong resourcing, and without credibility, it will find it very difficult to recover. That's my first point.
The second point is that one of the issues in national security is that expertise in this area tends to be monopolized within executive government, so conversations on national security issues can be quite rudimentary outside of government. One of the virtues, it seems to me, of investing parliamentarians with more competence in this area is that they will be better legislators and better able to communicate to the public, even without spilling any bean, that is, a national security secret, the dilemmas that are in play. That is another social value that this committee could serve.