Mr. Chair, welcome to your role. I know you'll provide good leadership for this committee.
As parliamentary secretary, I would have liked to provide more courtesy to my colleague. I certainly did talk to both critics about our proceeding quickly with Korea.
I think some of the confusion relates to our need, the resignation of our chair and our meetings being a bit delayed. I did hear the member's speech on the bill in the House when he spoke at length and answered questions. Certainly, the bill was also tabled before the House rose for the summer, so there has been plenty of time for research, and certainly speech writing.
I normally would have provided more courtesy, and I apologize for that. Perhaps we can adjourn and set a new meeting for today to use the officials who are in the room in the way we should, to proceed with that official briefing that will be based on the bill that was tabled months ago in the House.