Mr. Speaker, the member just said it. The issues at hand are not new and they are not going to go away. One thing for sure is that 20-plus standing committees will be convening in a relatively short time period and parliamentarians will be afforded the opportunity to sit on each and every committee and determine what sort of issues they want to deal with.
We cite the foreign affairs committee because that committee has already started to have some dialogue on this issue. There will be some background information within that committee from a historical perspective.
I am having a difficult time trying to understand what this proposed committee, if it were constituted, would be able to do that the current standing committee would not be able to do. I do not quite make the connection.
Whenever there is going to be an international issue with another country, are we going to anticipate that a special committee will be requested, or can we say we have confidence in our standing committees and the membership on those committees?