I think, Mr. Chair, what needs to happen at this committee is we need to have a subcommittee that plans work in accordance with the courtesy of including the other parties on the work schedule. If we have a subcommittee that plans the work, and this is prioritized by way of a regular motion that is directed by committee, then yes, it would be before that.
However, what I do not want to do is give you the ability to determine when that's going to be without consultation with us. I would state the obvious, which is that we're 25 members in our caucus without the infinite resources that both the government and the official opposition have, so we have to take our scheduling, our timing and our staffing into account when we make commitments for additional work.
This notion that when we don't concede to the whim of you as the chair that we're somehow complicit in the cover-up is a cockamamie way of impugning what our work is here as New Democrats. We even heard it today with these ridiculous references of an NDP-Liberal government. I'm not on for that. However, what I am on for is holding this government accountable, and what I am on for is using the traditional courtesy of our committee to have a planning committee that allows the committee to direct the work and not just the Conservative Party, or you, sir, as chair.