Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My Liberal colleague's comments show how out of touch the Liberals are with the current situation in the west. It's totally ironic. He said that we couldn't hear from witnesses last week because the opposition used one of its only recourse methods to make the government listen to reason in the SNC-Lavalin case and to hear from witnesses. Mr. Drouin said this. Mr. Drouin was the one who shut down the public meeting of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. He blames us for the 30 hours of voting, when all this came from him. Today, he's criticizing us for not holding a meeting, when he was the one who shut down a public hearing on the SNC-Lavalin case, an issue that Canadians wanted to hear about.
Last week, I proposed a number of times that the government end the voting marathon by allowing Jody Wilson-Raybould to speak and by allowing the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights to continue its study. Each time, people said no. Today, the person who shut down the study of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights is trying to prevent the ministers from speaking to the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food and is criticizing us for not holding this meeting last week. It's totally ridiculous.
I heard my colleagues from the west. They talked about real stories. They talked about real things. They talked about real fear. This is not fearmongering. This is the reality. They are afraid of what will happen.
You don't want to hear that? You just said that this is fearmongering. Go there and talk to them. You will see that this is a real fear. You will see they are really afraid of what's coming up with China.
It is unbelievable, Mr. Chair, that we heard that from that Liberal colleague. I hope he will go to the west. I hope he will go and listen to the farmers, to the canola growers, and hear what they have to say, because they are afraid of what's happening right now with China. They don't know how to deal with that. They will lose a lot of money, Mr. Chair.