Again, it's not a matter for this committee; it's not the purview of this committee to do technical briefings. If this committee had wished at some point to pass a motion to request such a thing, we could have done so. We did not do so, but as a committee, we have no say in whether the department gives technical briefings or to whom they might give them.
It is well within the power, the capability, the authority, of every member of Parliament to reach out to the departments, and, in my experience, the departmental officials are always eager and willing to do what they can to help us all out.