Mr. Speaker, I want to refer to “The Power of Parliamentary Houses to Send for Persons, Papers & Records: A Sourcebook on the Law and Precedent of Parliamentary Subpoena Powers for Canadian and Other Houses”. Some members of Parliament on that side may recognize the name, because it was actually written by a former member of this House, a Liberal Party member, called Derek Lee. He wrote on page 54:
It is an essential and undisputed privilege of both Houses of Parliament, which they possess in common with every other court, to summon Witnesses before them for examination upon any subject on which they may require information to guide them in their deliberations...
This falls well within the definition that is provided by a former Liberal member of Parliament to call forth witnesses to a committee. Would the member comment on that?