Mr. Chair, thank you for your excellent work so far. We're off to a good start, I think, because we've had a very reasonable chair, as well as excellent staff, by the way.
As New Democrats, we have stated our position. We think this is very serious, the stripping of rights of independent members regardless of their political affiliation. It is, I think, a fundamental threat. We feel there's a real opportunity at this committee, the ethics committee, to hold the line and to really air this so the public begins to know that as we're trying to do our job, we're being attacked on Twitter by one of the independent members, Ms. May, who is accusing us of blocking the debate. I'm not quite sure what that's about, so we're more than willing to go to a vote.