Mr. Speaker, I have already spoken about the independence of committee chairs, how we could ensure that independence by how we choose the committee chairs and take that out of the hands of the government and party leaders. I have also already spoken about the idea of removing the possibility of parliamentary secretaries sitting as voting members of committees.
However, what I think is also important is that committees need to be given the resources to really acquire the independent expert analysis that they need for any proposed legislation.
I would supplement what I said earlier with respect to resources. More generally, there are a lot of cases where we can change rules, but unless we put resources behind those rule changes, we do not actually accomplish what we want to accomplish.
I would ask that in the next Parliament the House ensure that committees have the resources they need to hold the government to account.