Thank you, Chair.
I find “hate” is a very strong word, because that is not where I'm going with this. It's the composing of the motion that I am commenting on, and I think, as I said at the very top of my remarks here, that can happen. That is the very nature of the committee's looking at a text that's in front of us, as Mr. Fergus so ably pointed out, and being able to say, well, I may not be happy with this or I don't see why this is important, but we are able to come to a compromise and we are able to work forward. It does not take away from any member the fact that they may not agree with the way a motion is put together.
Again, it's the way that these elements have been put together and the fact that we are not an investigative committee in the sense that a court of law would be. We're not the police. We don't have a team of investigators at our disposal, nor do we have those kinds of procedures in place, and nor do we want that. That was never the intention of Parliament when, over the course of time, the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner was established, as well as the offices of the other very important, very independent and very competent commissioners.
I want to say something about Baylis Medical. Indeed, I think there are very few members here who did not know Frank Baylis in some way, the former member for Pierrefonds—Dollard. Yes, he is involved with this company. I think that is something he certainly declared. This was public knowledge. This was not in any way kept from the House. I just want to talk about—