Thanks so much, Mr. Chair.
I just want to say that this amendment does delete the entire content of my motion, which I'm not sure—this is my first term on committee—is totally in order.
I also want to speak to the fact that, really, this motion that I've put forward is a replica of the motion that was put forward by the Liberals back in 2007. This is something the Liberals were on board with when they were not in government. They sent a report at that point.
We heard very clearly from all of the witnesses in our one-day hearing that this needs to happen. We need an independent officer of Parliament. I guess it's surprising to me that the Liberals have hesitation about supporting the motion as is.
I'm hoping that we can just vote on the motion as is and ideally send this report to Parliament.