Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Madame Gaudreau, for your intervention. I always listen intently and have a great deal of respect for your interventions, so thank you again.
We're all entitled to our opinions, and the events that day happened in that manner. Sometimes we may wish to have a mulligan on certain votes, but unfortunately, my understanding is that is not the way the rules of the committee work and it is also not the way I would see things. The vote that day happened in that manner, and I know Mr. Angus—not to speak for him—was probably disappointed with the outcome as well. To be frank, I was more interested in Mr. Angus's motion. I thought there was a lot of merit there. I thought that was going in the direction we wanted to go and that we could have moved on. Frankly, at this moment, we could have been studying that. It's disappointing.
Not to belabour that point, I do have some prepared remarks, Chair. I will try not to take up too much of the committee's time this afternoon. As you all know, I tend to have a few things to say and I'm sure I'll be watching my Twitter feed or someone will be informing me when occasionally one of the Conservative members will attack me on this thing. You know what? It's par for the course. I'm going to rise above and we're going to rise above, and we're going to do the good work that Canadians sent us here to do. That's what I'll continue to do and that will be my focus.
Mr. Chair, I'm surprised at where we are. I'm frankly a little disappointed, if I can say that, that we continue to be stuck and, to use the phrase, spinning our wheels on the same amended amended motion.
Mr. Chair, like my other colleagues, I was elected to serve the residents here, in this case in the wonderful riding of Vaughan—Woodbridge. I continue to advance my priorities and policies in the best interests of my residents and all Canadians, so that the work we undertake here would be meaningful and contribute to the advancement of our society in some way.
Along that tangent, like my other colleagues, to ensure that—