They have different roles, but they're also the key people who are moving files forward, particularly, apparently, politically explosive and sensitive files like the WE brothers' relationship with the Prime Minister and the half a billion dollars they were about to get. I'm going to put that aside for a minute now to consider what our committee needs to do.
We heard a lot about ministerial responsibility from my Liberal colleagues, but the ministers they brought forward didn't know anything about the file, so it was pretty much a waste of our time. Now we have a motion to report it back to the House.
Is there anything outrageous—a threat to democracy, a threat to the survivability of this Parliament—if the committee reported to the House that the witnesses that the House said should come before this committee did not appear? If we reported back and said that those witnesses had not appeared, would it be something that you think could cause an election?