Mr. Chair, the remarks made by the parliamentary secretary are clearly wrong. First, he tried to justify Mr. Anderson's points yesterday at the subcommittee meeting, which was nothing more than a filibuster by the government in that it does not want to deal with the food safety issue.
The parliamentary secretary is right on this point—and I don't have the motion before me; I saw it a moment ago. It was that the standing committee would set up a subcommittee on food safety. We did that.
The fact of the matter, Mr. Chair, is that Mr. Anderson's motion was on the table and being debated. The parliamentary secretary said that Mr. Allen had a motion on the floor. He did not. You ruled the amendment he made out of order. So Mr. Allen's motion that the parliamentary secretary is speaking to was not even on the floor. He may have, in fact, seen a copy.
In my view, Malcolm Allen's motion, the NDP motion, was in fact on the topic of the Subcommittee on Food Safety, in that it basically was laying out a schedule for us to deal appropriately with the food safety issue, including the issue of listeriosis.