Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I'm pleased to reiterate my friendship and appreciation for the excellent work you do as chairman. You are a man of highest principle and great integrity. You have always served this committee and Parliament well, we extend our wholehearted friendship to you, and we certainly have full confidence in you.
The proposed subamendment is both sad and contemptible for democracy. We are dealing with a government whose offices were searched on live television for all Canadians and Quebeckers to see. I would just remind you that this search did not take place at the headquarters of the Liberal Party, the NDP or the Bloc Québécois, it took place at the Conservative Party headquarters. Mr. Wallace, in a display both unconvincing and beneath his position, implied that the problem was with officials and the Elections Act, when we know full well that the mandate of this committee...