I thank you, Mr. Chair, but I think that when we're talking about an attempt to take away the democratic rights of independent members of this House, this isn't about being angry; this is about stating facts. When you are actually trying to use a committee to undermine the rights of members within the House of Parliament and you don't even bother to get to the routine motions, I think the use of the term “kangaroo court” is fair. I think that's a reasonable term. I don't think you would find that to be unparliamentary. In fact, if you compare it to many of the terms that we've seen in the Westminster tradition over the last 400 years, I would blush if I said them.
I'm actually very, very concerned about the democratic erosion that we've seen under this government and that we're seeing at this committee.
I'd like to get back to the fact that they aren't even interested in the routine motions. This is what I'm talking about. These are the routine motions that we would normally debate today to establish the ability of this committee to work together, but they've decided that they're not interested in even a working committee because they want to get at the right of the independent members of this House to be able to make amendments at report stage.
There would be another motion that we would have taken, which is working meals.