Madam Speaker, here we are debating documents, again, and I know my Conservative friends want to forget about the Afghan detainee documents that drove the House to a similar situation. To the member, talking about accountability and public service is really important, but one of the tools we need is to update our Crown copyright laws. Crown copyright in Canada was brought in, I think it was 1901 or 1911, and it has not changed very much since that time.
This refers to the release of documents for studies, to the business sector, to the not-for-profit sector, to general Canadians, and it would also provide a solution to some of the problems we face here in the House. I would like to know the hon. member's thoughts. The Liberals had some interest in this with the former member for LaSalle–Émard–Verdun, who they then removed as a justice minister and has now left this place, who had an interest in updating Crown copyright because the United States, U.K. and Australia, basically anybody left on the planet, has Crown copyright in a democracy such as Canada.
When are we going to update that so we have more public documents, which the taxpayers paid for, accessible to businesses and not-for-profit organizations in parliament?