I would like to comment on this motion. As I said at the last committee meeting, this is the motion that allows us to show most respect for our witnesses. When the chair issues an invitation to a meeting on a specific matter, witnesses often have to travel a long way to testify. Out of respect for those witnesses, we have to be able to hold the meeting and hear them. We have to stop what I would call this meeting prevention system. The witnesses must be heard.
So I think that it is important to pass the motion as it was passed at the last meeting. It shows our witnesses that we are being transparent and that we respect them. When meetings are called by the chair, we have to able to hold them.
I do not know what the official opposition thinks.