Mr. Chair, I'll speak to the amendments if that is what I must do.
With respect, Chair, I caution this committee that this motion is vague and imprecise on a lot of levels. By the very fact that we're talking about a number of amendments, I think the committee deserves the opportunity to look with more clarity at what a motion would look like. It's not going to be amended; it's going to be transformed, in effect.
There are a number of serious implications about the language of this motion that the particular member who's tabled it may not be concerned about, but I share the concerns of the NDP member. There are a lot of good reasons why we should invest confidence in the commissioner to work through this process within the scope of her duties and respect that position. Then we can, as a committee and as many have done before, build on the recommendations she might have flowing from her decision. That seems to me to be a better way to conduct our investigation in the broader context of all members of Parliament, instead of turning this into the circus it could become when the language in this motion as it stands unfairly impugns a specific party. There are a lot of issues that are “ethical” that may be opened as a result of this. Its loose language is unacceptable from my perspective.