Thank you.
Instead of common sense, I'd like some common courtesy, perhaps a rare thing to expect from my Conservative colleagues. It's absolutely absurd to call the committee in the summer. It's a stunt. We can call a Standing Order 106 meeting at any time this summer if an emergency comes up.
The other thing is this. I don't know about the Conservatives, but spending time in our communities with our constituents to ask them what their needs are and to find out what's happening in their lives is more important than the Conservatives' partisan games of trying to look like they're working hard in the summer because they wasted days and days of meetings here, which is what they did. That's not a matter of opinion. Go back and look at the records of meetings. It's a mathematical fact.
Mr. Hallan talks about this as being a common-sense move. This isn't common sense at all. What I'd like to do is dispense with this motion right away so that I can go back to hearing from every one of these witnesses who has something important to say. They all have different perspectives, and I respect that, but I'm here to hear from them.
The Conservatives continue to move a motion in the middle of a meeting. They called this meeting and wanted witnesses to come in to hear from them, and then they interrupt the witnesses that we all have called here to get the feedback that we need from them on an important public policy matter and waste the last part of the meeting while we debate some motion that they have tabled for partisan purposes. I'm trying to search for a phrase that describes that, but I'll tell you what, common sense is not one of them.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm going to vote against this. I think that we should have a quick vote on this so that we can get back to hearing from the witnesses whose testimony I'm interested in hearing.