Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I think this amendment is completely unnecessary. We have put in place very strong protections around the documents that we would receive. We've been very careful about this, and we have done this because the Liberals said again and again and again that they didn't trust the committee. They wanted all manner of protections, so the protections are there. We don't have to say in a motion that we are needing to respect the privacy laws of the nation. As the privacy and ethics committee, we respect the laws of the nation. That's understood.
I am not sure what the Liberals are trying to limit, what Speakers' Spotlight obligation on what documents they have to turn over. Speakers' Spotlight has documents or they don't have documents. For us to presuppose where those documents are, who holds them, I think is troubling. It's troubling in the sense that perhaps the Liberals are doing some research on their own and feel that there may be troubling documents that they don't want us to be able to access. I think fundamentally my concern is—given the bad faith I've seen for the last 34 hours—that this becomes another subamendment to be argued about ad nauseam, and it keeps us from getting to the main motion.
We saw earlier today the Liberals' attempt at a motion that was ruled out of order. At the last meeting, Mr. Dong came forward with a really strange motion to try to shut down our work altogether with another motion. I think this amendment is just part of a series of tactics—delaying tactics, stalling tactics—trying to get us off the topic at hand, which is that we have a motion before us. We have tried to get this motion voted on multiple times.
Let's just vote on this amendment of the Liberals and then get back to the business at hand, but I think we're wasting our time, and they are wasting our time with this. This is completely unnecessary. This is simply another game that they're playing, another stalling tactic, and it actually I think undermines the credibility of our committee, because our committee fully respects the privacy laws of this nation, and we don't need to be told by the Liberals how to do that.
I'm ready to vote on their motion and get back to work.