Madam Speaker, my colleague from Montcalm and I did indeed serve on the special joint committee together. He was not able to quite get to his question, but if I took what he said and the context in which I believe he put it with respect to advance requests, if that was what in fact he was alluding to, what I would say is that the committee was seized with a number of different issues, advance requests being merely one of them. Given that, there was insufficient time to properly study that complicated issue.
I understand that the National Assembly has studied the issue of advance requests, but we did not study it in a sufficient way. That is what I took away from the special joint committee and why some Conservative members issued a dissenting report that said that at the present time they are not ready to proceed with advance requests, due to insufficient study across Canada.