Mr. Chairman, I certainly hope we don't get into this semantic argument.
Under the Department of Justice Act, subsection 4.1(2), a charter statement can only be produced at the stage of the bill's being introduced into the House of Commons, so it can't be called a charter statement under law, because our law tells us what a charter statement is. It doesn't provide, as I have argued and explained before, for something called a new charter statement or a modified charter statement.
We asked very clearly for something that would explain to us whether the amendments we made to this bill impacted the original charter statement, particularly as related to freedom of expression, and we received it. If we're going to argue, because it couldn't be called a charter statement but rather is called a declaration or whatever, that we haven't fulfilled the motion, then at this point, it is a deliberate attempt to filibuster the work of the committee and a deliberate attempt to thwart the work of the committee, never to get back to clause-by-clause and never to finish the bill.
I will take great exception, having drafted the motion, to any argument that the motion was not fulfilled; it absolutely was fulfilled.
Thank you.