Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I echo the rationale of Mr. Gerretsen. I was simply offering a rebuttal to what Mr. Julian put on the table. Hence, there is relevance, but I will bring it back specifically.
We are debating the substance of Mr. Kelly's amendment. As Liberal members, we've heard Mr. Gerretsen put forward an amendment to that amendment, and I'm glad to continue to discuss that. I think there are important issues that have yet to be clarified and decided upon, but the more we focus on these technical issues, the more we are hindered from focusing on the lived realities of everyday Canadians. In my community in London, I know my constituents want us to focus on the COVID-19 response from an economic perspective. I know that constituents in every one of our communities feel exactly the same way.
Why we have now descended into a political battle over this particular issue is beyond me. In the summer, we saw a number of meetings, meeting after meeting, and those meetings needed to take place. They should have taken place. It was good for this committee to focus on the WE Charity issue, but now the Conservatives in particular, and the rest of the opposition too, are trying to steer this committee towards an outcome that suits their political interests and, I fear, not the interests of this country. This country right now needs its politicians at every level to focus on COVID-19 and the economic response.
I urge my colleagues, Mr. Chair, to move in that direction. We can keep debating this amendment, but again, on relevance, it's standing in the way of our talking about the main thing, and the main thing right now is COVID-19.