Thank you very much.
Mr. Chair, I find your actions in unilaterally using what you have determined to be the chair's prerogative rather unusual when indeed it is the custom that committees are the masters of their own domain. You, sir, are simply there to chair the processes and procedures within the course of due planning. Planning has to come from the direction of the committee, sir. You have unilaterally taken this opportunity to call a meeting without any consideration of the other parties involved.
You'll recall that in a motion from our first meeting, dated December 13, 2021, and moved by Ms. Hepfner, who's back with us today, you were authorized, under the accorded Standing Orders, to hold meetings and to receive evidence and have it published when a quorum is not present. As to holding meetings and calling meetings, it has been my experience in my time in the House that subcommittees plan the work. What I'm particularly agitated by is the fact that, even in the course of this term, as you can reflect back on, there have been times when members have used Standing Order 106 to have an emergency meeting.
I feel that your actions today have been used to surreptitiously avoid having to negotiate with any of the other parties present to call a meeting down the final stretch. I should note for the record, for the media watching and everybody else, that every single Conservative-led committee is doing the same thing, without the ability to have, which I think is common courtesy, a planning committee—