I find this a rather disturbing pattern too. I'd just say to the honourable member that some of us actually want to get some work together. We're amenable to your ideas, or ideas from members from the Bloc or the NDP. Nathan has some good stuff that comes forward as well.
But if this is constantly done for no particularly good reason, it certainly poisons the atmosphere in a committee. I understand from past history around this place that Mr. McGuinty was a little more agreeable to working on things. He has somehow taken this great responsibility now as the lead critic for the Liberals, and all of a sudden there is a change of personality, it would almost seem.
I have a problem with his constantly bringing these kinds of things forward. We're running this committee by motions that McGuinty puts forward pretty much on an everyday basis, and I don't find value in that. If you're ever interested in hearing from a colleague who means the best for you at this point, you could maybe get some of your things accomplished and put forward if you had a little less of a chippy attitude in always bringing stuff forward in this manner. I don't think there's any particular gain in it for you or your party--even for partisan purposes here.
We have witnesses here. I have come prepared to listen to them on a pretty crucial issue, yet we have this kind of silliness going on again and again.
I don't see Mr. Godfrey or Anthony doing it, but Mr. McGuinty somehow feels he has a pit bull kind of responsibility to do this. I don't really see, in all sincerity, David, the need to do this all the time. If you carry on with this, you're not going to get the cooperation you want when maybe you could. I don't like this.