With all due respect, this committee has the ability to make its own decisions. It made a decision in writing in a motion in English and French that we were to continue to have hearings to amount to 15 extra hours on the week of May 30. We have fulfilled that, so to continue to ask for that kind of change from what the committee unanimously agreed to and to comment on that, I think, is outside of your purview right now, because you were not here when we passed that motion.
I am guided by the unanimous motion passed by this committee. The amendment that Ms. Thomas brought forward has to do with a deadline for amendments. I would prefer that we listen to that debate on a deadline for amendments, please.
By the way, I would like to point out and remind this committee that we have been trying to get this deadline, not today, but since Monday. This committee has had a business meeting to try to bring forward a deadline for amendments. That would have given us Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday—five days—to make this decision. Each time this was brought up, there was an intervention that prevented us from getting to that particular vote.
This is not something that is new and that suddenly came up today.
Now, Mr. Perkins, you may continue.