All right. It's becoming increasingly difficult to express oneself in this committee. Every time one goes down a road that makes the chair, or his party, or their coalition with other opposition parties, feel uncomfortable, we are told we are interdicted from making such statements.
We have before us the original motion, which proposes an investigation of the Conservative Party of Canada. We have a chair who has admitted that the Conservative Party of Canada is not a public office holder. The Conservative Party of Canada is not a public office holder and therefore, by his own logic and his own ruling, it cannot be investigated in this committee. It can be received in the House affairs committee, perhaps, but in this committee, certainly not. According to Mr. Szabo's ruling, the chair has said that political parties are not public office holders.