Thank you. I said I would only give one person a crack at it for two minutes.
All right, colleagues, I want to thank Mr. Saxton for bringing the matter up. I noted that he wanted to have it discussed and debated in full committee, not in steering committee, for whatever reason, and that's fine. So he's done it.
As I said, on a personal basis, the only issue I take with that is there was a suggested impugning of my motives as an individual member of Parliament. But I can deal with that; we're all big boys.
I think, Mr. Saxton, on the issue of the substance, number one is that you got the debate you wanted. Number two, I don't see any of the actions you referred to, whether they had merit in your arguments or not, as impeding the work of the House of Commons and therefore constituting a question of privilege. I don't see them as having impeded the ability of this committee to do its work. So I don't see that as a privilege.
I do take the suggestion made by other colleagues around the table that we need to improve the proceedings from the way they have been established since March 2010, and I think that will be a good start for those who want to take that position in steering committee, where the discussion will be productive, and then from there back over to this committee. I suggest that will be the first positive thing going forward.
On everybody's behalf, I'm going to take some exception to any suggestions about the sources of the information, because I took great pains to point out to all of you when everybody got information—of course what I said in the House of Commons is on the record in Hansard—that I made absolutely no reference to anything that was confidential, absolutely none. You'd need a stick 30 miles long to make any connection.
I appreciate the fact that you want to debate. Thank you for bringing it up, and I thank all colleagues for all of this.
I'm going to proceed and suggest that this is not a point of privilege and I'm going to go on.