There was a debate, Mr. Harris, when this committee was first being contemplated in Parliament, of course. What is it? Is it an oversight committee?
Perhaps a better description would be that of the American congressional committee and the nature of that committee compared to a review committee, which NSICOP has become. The decision was taken by Parliament to make it a review body to look back over time, with a broad mandate to examine many issues, to get access to classified information, to ask the right questions and to call witnesses.
Each review brings 10,000 to 30,000 or 40,000 pages of material, and then, of course, we provide a report to the Prime Minister, as I mentioned, in classified form. It is then redacted and presented to Canadians. We haven't really focused so much on the question of anything but review.