I don't want to take up the whole committee meeting with this. I don't have much to add, except that it wouldn't be the first time we would do this. This is not the first time I have done this, at least, and that's why I chose my words carefully. I said that my motion was a suggestion for the report. We could then continue to discuss it.
Personally, as a representative of people who have come before us to discuss their problem, I don't wish their trip to have been for nothing. I want to move forward with the issue by tabling this motion. My reason for doing this is very simple: I am putting their demands directly before the committee. I have put them into a motion. I have the right to do it, and that is how I would like to proceed.
Obviously, if my motion passes, you will all understand that the recommendations in it are those I will want to support in the report. My motion represents the extra weight that I would like to add to the producers' demands. I am therefore asking the committee to either pass or defeat the motion. If members on the government side do not wish to vote and support my motion they are under no obligation to do so. In any case, they have not always voted as I do.