Declaration of Emergency committee  That's fine, Mr. Chair. Thank you very much. I want to thank my newfound friend, Mr. Green. My perspective is that I don't want us not to consider bringing in outside legal counsel. In fact, I believe we may need that. I would like first to see the scope of where we're going.

Declaration of Emergency committee  And to call witnesses.

Declaration of Emergency committee  I'll be brief. My expectation is not that they would frame anything for us. They would give us evidence, and I would like to hear their evidence. I don't believe it's the time to call on external legal counsel. I just want to hear their evidence about what their thinking was, a

Declaration of Emergency committee  Excuse me, Mr. Chair.

Declaration of Emergency committee  No, disregard it. Thank you.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Let's do the first meeting with the three witnesses.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Understanding that we may wish some information to assist us, we're still limited back to those guardrails under section 62, regardless of what we want. This isn't about our wants, right? At the end of the day, we still are limited back to the guardrail of section 62. I might no

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you very much, and thanks again for being here. One of you discussed earlier that really the review into the invocation already began in the House of Commons, with the debate. It's not really necessarily fair to suggest no parliamentarians were involved in the debate about

Declaration of Emergency committee  Because it did vote—

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you. Good.

Declaration of Emergency committee  We would have.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you very much. I won't use it all myself, but others will. I'm trying to get my head around the meetings and private discussions, because, again, this appears to me to be an area that's very prescriptive. It says that every meeting of the PRC held to consider an order refe

Declaration of Emergency committee  I don't know where it gives us the...“held to consider an order or regulation”, as an example. I'm just trying to figure out how we are stepping away from that, when we're here to consider an order like the invocation.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Okay. Thank you. Next, I think one of you referred to proportionality. Would you agree that proportionality, how something was done, really would be a measure of an inquiry rather a measure of this committee? You're looking at before invocation and then what actions were taken.