Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Angus, for trying to bridge the gap and come up with a solution.
Before I get into the changes you are suggesting, let me reiterate what my colleague Brenda Shanahan just said.
I think there is a fair bit of merit in what you're proposing. Certainly I feel that it's important for us to provide this information to the Ethics Commissioner. If we have an opportunity to adjourn the meeting now and come back to this at a date set next week on this specific motion, I think there are a few things that can happen.
First, I think we can get to where we want to be. It would also give an opportunity, as we all are waiting for.... We do know that this is not the only committee that is looking at this matter, and there may be an opportunity for both conditions to be satisfied on this. I would certainly like to put it out there that there is an opportunity for us to do this and try to get to the nub of the problem and come to a resolution that could satisfy everyone on each side.
Before I get to that, I have to say that my colleague Mr. Scarpaleggia is quite right. You are quite the experienced debater. I like how you, in all friendliness, took a strip off me for going back to take a look at the history of democracy, and yet you—