Mr. Chairman, I wanted to draw the attention of committee members to a point I consider very important.
During our hearings in Vancouver, you and I were the only ones there. I find it rather peculiar that the committee should go to the expense of travelling to regions or to other provinces in order to meet with people and for committee members not to be there.
It gives people a very bad image of our committee. Moreover, this is taxpayers' money. I do not want to focus specifically on the Conservatives, but the fact remains that you were the only representative from your party there. I do not want to lose face in this type of situation, which I do find rather peculiar.
Moreover, we travelled economy class so as to allow all members of the committee to travel. Well, we could have travelled business class, and it would have cost less. In fact, if there were only going to be two of us there, we might as well not have gone at all. I'm not interested in working for Canada in other parts of Canada. I wanted to share my frustration about this with you.