Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The only time that seems to be in good faith is when the opposition feels they're running over the government with the agenda in this committee. The fact of the matter is that the steering committee would work a lot better, as we've said many times, if the government representative was allowed to be there, rather than the chair, who Mr. Easter constantly accuses of being partisan. Then you put him in a position where he's supposed to be non-partisan. It makes it very difficult.
Anyway, the point I would like to make when we're looking at the agenda to the schedule is that we have a whole whackload of motions by Mr. Easter and every one of them is an emergency as of the date he puts it down. We have motions by Mr. Richards, Mr. Bellavance, and Mr. Atamanenko. We only have one motion on something that is a joint motion from two parties, Mr. Hoback and Mr. Valeriote, and I think it's something that.... Our committee is far more effective when we're not looking at partisan things and trying to take shots at each other, but is trying to move forward in some sort of consensual way.
I think this biotech motion is one where we can do that and get a very substantive study ahead of where policy presently is. I think we should be looking at that and maybe elevating that in the cycle of importance here.