Mr. Speaker, it is not an easy question, I must say.
I think the question itself provides the answer. The fact is that I cannot answer the questions the hon. member is posing. What is the impact on the ability of our joint committee to continue to function in its current format and procedures? I do not know.
I do know that my colleague, who is the co-chair of the committee and who the hon. members across the way were complimenting in terms of the work that she does, has raised serious questions about what will happen to the issue of giving forgiveness to all these changes that have happened before.
I do not know the answer to that question, but I think that is exactly why we want to send it to committee and why we are saying we need to hear what happens at committee. We need to get the experts in to answer that very kind of question. I guarantee that the answers they give are going to pose a whole lot of other questions that need to be followed up and answered. We will need to do it so that the committee of the whole is satisfactorily comfortable that the scenario my hon. colleague is painting, where our current process is corrupting—and I use the word advisedly, although it is a bad word to use in the current climate—or not working, is failing us in terms of how well it worked before.
These are all very valid questions. I wish I could answer the hon. member, but I cannot. I do not believe that all of the members on the committee can, but they do know enough about what is going on to pose questions like the ones the member for Western Arctic is raising, along with many other questions. That is why we feel it needs to go to committee.
Roll up the sleeves, look at it in detail and hopefully bring a bill back here, in which the questions are answered and we can feel comfortable to move ahead.