Mr. Speaker, I will start off with a comment and then go into a question.
I will not fault my colleague for standing up for the oil and gas industry. Those are his constituents. Indeed, we need to have an intelligent conversation in this place about what to do with energy workers as the decades go on, what that transition is going to look like.
I listened to the member's comments about the economic value of oil and gas. I would like to point out to him that our oil and gas production is among the most energy-intensive on this planet. The other facts we have to look at are that the 10 warmest years on record all happened in the last decade, and that climate change itself has a real economic cost. We need only speak to Canada's hard-working farmers, who are on the front lines of climate change. The current business risk management programs are not adequately funding them to deal with climate-related disasters.
My question is on the process before us. I have heard the RCMP publicly comment that it would be uncomfortable for the RCMP to receive these documents. Given that the House is currently stuck, would it not be advisable for us to move this question of privilege to the procedure and House affairs committee? Then Conservatives could call the RCMP commissioner before that committee as a witness, and the commissioner could inform the Conservatives on the appropriate process for the handling of these documents.
Would that not be an advisable option?