We also want to consider that every time one of these committees makes a request to the agencies, given there's no new money to the agencies to support all these new requests, this is effectively a cut in the budgets to the agencies themselves. We want to make sure that committees coordinate so that we also afford the agencies as efficient an opportunity to respond, rather than having to provide very similar things to multiple committees.
I think that the greatest payoff for the taxpayer and for parliamentarians and Canadians will be a clear division of labour among these entities based on the particular areas of expertise that they bring to bear. For NSICOP, one clear advantage is that now we finally have somebody who can advocate for changes in legislation. We know there are many pieces of flawed legislation. This government is addressing several of them in this parliamentary period, but when cabinet meets, they are never high enough to actually make it on the cabinet agenda. For years, we have had MCs, memoranda to cabinet, to make changes that don't actually ever make it through cabinet. Now, we actually have advocates. We have legislators and parliamentarians who can make sure the legislation is as effective as possible, both on the constitutionality and legality side and relative to a changing security environment.