I have my own point of order, but I will speak to this one at this point.
I concur that it would have been expected that the minister should be here. That would be my understanding: that we should have been requesting that as well.
I would like to also have an update on what was done to try to get the minister here and what the reasons were that the minister did not appear not only at the last meeting but now at this one as well.
Furthermore, to add to this, the parliamentary secretary was here at the last meeting, so the expectation would have been that, if we were going to continue on the same thing, we would have all the rest of the same people here, I believe, yet we do not have the parliamentary secretary either. We should be having the minister, and now we don't even have a parliamentary secretary.
Nobody from the government seems to want to be accountable for their decisions. We could get into the whole situation that we're seeing here with a prime minister who refuses to be accountable for what he's doing, really breaking the laws of this country—