I respect Mr. Tolmie lecturing us on how the committee is run. He hasn't been here. It's clear that we're into a filibuster, which the Conservatives promised they wouldn't do.
They claimed at the last meeting that they respected journalists. I guess that was transitory in their belief after receiving some bad press in Postmedia. However, it seems they've forgotten about that after the week.
I'm hoping and pleading with them that perhaps we can move on. We've spent 40 minutes on this one point, including providing questions to an individual who hasn't been to any of our meetings, who's asking us for a grace period, who hasn't done his homework, and who is coming and just delaying the whole process.
I hope they stick to their word. I took Mr. Waugh at his word when he said they weren't going to filibuster. He hasn't engaged in it, but maybe the rest of the Conservatives didn't get the memo from Mr. Waugh.