I think at another time and another place with a different Conservative Party, a letter from the Ethics Commissioner clearing a member of Parliament, regardless of party, would have been enough to move on to committee business.
I don't know what's happened at this committee that it is embroiled in partisan attacks and can't get to its own business, but it is a sad day when that's the case.
I can tell you, Pam, what people say to me at their doors. They say, “Whether you're a member of Parliament, a member of the legislative assembly, a councillor or a school trustee, we elect you all to get along and to get stuff done for us, and game playing and name-calling are not what we want to see.” I was at doors last weekend, and I heard it again.
We can all hold ourselves to a higher standard, and I hope that we get there in this committee and across government.