Oh, I think somebody just spoke.
Can I proceed? I'm looking at my screen and I see two folks whose mikes aren't muted. At the best of times we're not perfect on that, and even after a year, I'm still not perfect at that. I don't think any of us are.
I'm still percolating with the fact that maybe there's a compromise or a conclusion we can reach together with folks, so we can say we understand the various parties' views on calling parliamentary staffers. Our view is that ministers need to held accountable. In fact, the Conservatives' view is the same thing, that ministers should be held accountable.
At the same time, being able to look at Mr. Fortin's motion and say that—I'm still percolating on this, much like I could probably have another coffee at this point—we could potentially put this into the appendix of the report, where this could be noted, I think could be something we could work with. I keep thinking back on how that would work and whether that could potentially be a way to go.
I've just been writing this down to make sure I can come up with it. I want to make sure that if I do, we can go down this path and potentially talk about this, and gather my esteemed colleagues' views on this.
This is, I believe, week two or three of the five-week sitting period before the week in May when we get to be back in our constituencies. I hope that we can further speak as to how we proceed in terms of wrapping up this study, getting it so that the analysts can proceed to writing up their thoughts, and us, each individual MP, being able to proceed and provide our thoughts, so as a team, a collective team, we can reach some sort of conclusion with regard to the study that this motion is in reference to and so forth.
I know that MP Johns is here covering his esteemed colleague from northern Ontario, MP Angus, and I welcome him this morning.
I don't want to say that I feel bad for you coming here this morning, but nonetheless it's always nice to see you, Gordon. I always enjoy your company and having a conversation.
I think at the same time, we have received further documents with regard to WE and the goings-on there. We've received some pictures and so forth. That's important. At the same time, we want to reach a conclusion. That is something we all want to get to. I don't think any one of us at this point in time does not want to conclude this study and move on to the other studies at hand and get these things wrapped up.
I believe one of my colleagues mentioned that we don't want to be talking about this in June; we don't. More news has transpired today with regard to our other study that we've been looking at in reference to Pornhub and MindGeek. I think it's important that we get to that study to get things firmed up, because that study is very important to our constituents. If I could rank the importance of this study here it pales in comparison to ensuring that non-consensual images are not utilized on the Internet, in reference to where we are with Mr. Fortin's motion.
In terms of the news coming out from Montreal this morning, the executive's home is no longer standing as some sort of fire happened from a cause unknown at this point. It behooves the committee that we wrap up this motion and this study and proceed to the Pornhub/MindGeek study. I think it's of significant importance and I think we need to continue making that point.
In fact, going back to the representatives who were here from the study in the prior meeting with regard to their reappointments, this morning La Presse has a story on Pornhub where the title is
“J'ai voulu mourir”.
I believe this means, “I want to die”. There is publication
[Inaudible—Editor] without consent on Pornhub.
Again, Caroline Touzin from La Presse this morning has put up an article on Pornhub and MindGeek. I know how important this is to the people in la belle province and all Canadians.
I'm looking at the article. It describes an adolescent named
Catherine, victim of sexual exploitation, young adult; she became an escort.
She talks about her suffering with addiction and—