Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
This is the fifth meeting on Mr. Hubbard's motion about ethical practices in the Conservative Party's campaign financing. I will not list them, because I want to make my points quite quickly.
This is the fifth meeting today. We have had four others. At two hours each, that is eight hours. Last time, last Tuesday, our Conservative colleagues demonstrated, in my view, that they have no new arguments and that debate was no longer helpful. They talked about the committee's mandate from every possible angle. They talked about who was a public office holder and who was not. They said that other parties did the same things they did. We showed that that was not so. They said that the things the Bloc Québécois did were worse. We showed that that was not so either. They said that the Liberal Party's financing was shady. We said that it was not the time to talk about that.
Then someone said that the Conservatives had not been accused of anything. To be perfectly honest, I will say that he was quite right. But Elections Canada did refuse to reimburse campaign expenses and did carry out a search with the help of the RCMP. That is what we are talking about at the moment.
Then, as they had nothing more to say, they threw out a bunch of suggestions: we could do this, we could do that, we could pass this or pass that.
Enough already.
Mr. Chair, as I told you last week, I am fed up. Either they come up with new arguments that will convince us or...