Mr. Chair, let me try and get this straight. I'm new to Parliament, in a sense, and certainly new to committee, but I'm a bit of a nerd. I enjoy going through the websites and doing the homework before arriving for work.
Mr. Thériault had articulated how in the initial report we have a 120-day deadline for the government to respond to the report, which would allow for us to continue committee business properly and in earnest in the fall, which I think is the intention of every member around this table. Because some colleagues across the table have not done their due diligence and their basic homework, which is part of the obligation of being a public office holder, we are now looking to find a way to beg for time.
I know we are in a new Parliament and we have a new government, but I'm curious whether the tactics in this new Parliament are going to be the same as those used by the previous government. This, I think, is a good-faith gesture to continue the work the committee started in the past in the way in which all other committees in Parliament have been taking on the responsibility to do that work. This strikes me as speciously obstructionist at a point where we should be focusing on the business of Parliament and the business of the people. If the Carney government chooses to employ the same tactics as the Trudeau government and relitigate these old issues by using procedural delays and ignorance as a foil, then that will be very unfortunate.