Thanks, Chair.
I think this is about 5.5 hours now of Conservative filibustering. Let's review what's going on for Canadians at home. Yes, I'm sure they're all watching.
A couple of weeks ago we tried to have a subcommittee meeting to work out an agenda for the rest of May and June until the House rises for the summer. Obviously we had a good debate in that meeting. I won't discuss anything about the meeting, but certainly the outcome of it was pretty apparent to the committee: We could not achieve consensus around that set of priorities, even though we had a fulsome discussion.
The Conservatives were the ones who would not support any form of programming motion with an agreed set of priorities. Even though, I will say quite openly and honestly, we really tried to achieve consensus, we found that the Conservatives, as we see here today, were not really interested in working collaboratively.
They said that they opposed our budget before it was even released, so do they really want to study the budget? I would argue that what we're seeing here today is the exact opposite.