Mr. Chairman, the reason I bring it up is the following. Over decades parliamentarians have ceded ground to the executive, sometimes, sadly, by laziness, if you will. I'm not suggesting this is the case here; I just wanted to make sure it isn't. I've sat on Treasury Board, and whenever the officials were asking for authorities not to publish information, the information was provided; therefore, the determination was done in full consciousness of the information itself. This is not the case here.
The question I'm asking is a very serious one. Who determines what is “on a required basis“? If it's us, I'm fine; I'm comfortable with that. Then all I'll say is that at some point, as a committee, with some special responsibilities of due diligence, perhaps we should invoke that authority and use it so it doesn't disappear over time. If it's not us, then I might have a problem with that and test the system. I think that's part and parcel of our work, to make sure that parliamentarians don't let go of any oversight capacity over time by not exercising it. That's the reason I'm bringing this up.