Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The question of the Member, as I understand it, is what mandate would the special committee have, given the withdrawal of the application, which was the threshold of it coming into being to begin with?

In its report, the committee is asking, in essence, for a revised mandate. A select committee or special committee of the House has whatever mandate the House chooses to give it. The House may choose to give it the mandate of having the authority to consider aspects of the allegations of bias that have been made and form part of the public record to date.

It is a matter of direction and articulation by this House. Without that articulation or direction from the House, the committee has no further mandate after today. That is quite clear, I think. Were there no recommendations passed or motions adopted by the House, the committee, which had its birth and raison d'etre to consider the application, would no longer have that. So it does take the direction and recommendations from this House to provide that authority. Once given, that authority is clearly there -- it is a parliamentary authority.