I thank the members for their comments and observations. I do appreciate the advice I have received from both sides of the House.
I appreciate that the Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons wants to have the opportunity to speak to this matter. I will allow a discussion on this at a later date, maybe tomorrow or Thursday, to give him the opportunity to reply.
Insofar as the hon. member for Delta--South Richmond is concerned, while I appreciate the issue he has raised and I am quite prepared to consider it in due course, having heard all of the arguments on it, I would urge him to bring the matter to the attention of the committee at his earliest convenience. In my view this is a matter that probably should be dealt with in committee but I will look at it from the point of view of the House.
The committee may want to take steps based on the submissions he has made here. I know he could repeat them in the committee of which he is a member. Those submissions, in my view, might be relevant to the privileges of the members of the committee who, after all, must carry on their work with the person who has written this letter and in whom he has expressed some misgivings as to his confidence in the ability of that person to continue.
Since the individual is working for the committee that clearly is a matter of considerable importance to the committee and one that he will want to raise there, I would suggest, at the earliest opportunity. I thank him for bringing this matter to the House.