Mr. Speaker, the parliamentary secretary talked again about this new system, this hybrid system, that we are bringing in and that it is enough to deal with the issues at hand. As the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence, she knows that there has been a number of tragedies recently in the Canadian Armed Forces with the recent Snowbirds crash and the crash of the Cyclone maritime helicopter in the Mediterranean off the coast of Greece. We have not had a chance, as parliamentarians, to discuss this. One of the things missing from this motion is that a number of standing committees are still not in operation, including the Standing Committee on National Defence.
What is the best way for parliamentarians to deal with this when we cannot call witnesses before standing committees to actually have these discussions and find out what is in the best interest of the Canadian Armed Forces?