Mr. Speaker, I shall try to steer clear of impressions.
What I have noticed, in actual fact, is that the Conservative government likes to do things in a very contained and isolated way.
When we are discussing an external committee but no one from the outside is accepted, and everything is being done by people from the inside, alarm bells start to ring, and I am extremely concerned.
The value of having a committee composed of external people is that it makes it possible, as in a jury trial, that a group of peers, not experts, studies the situation and make sure that the system is working well.
Why did the Conservative government not retain this amendment, which had been negotiated and discussed, and which was a generous compromise? There is no logical explanation except that the government does not like transparency.
As in the popular film, A Few Good Men, “They just can't handle the truth.”