Exactly. You had a wide breadth, and I'll take the same liberty.
When we look at this, we have a couple of suggestions. One is we remove the clause-by-clause from the date of the start of the clause-by-clause, and then we can move forward in listening to witnesses.
We're ready to go right now. We can get the chair to call the witnesses. All we have to do is remove the clause-by-clause, or we make the clause-by-clause contingent on the minister showing up. Clearly, she doesn't want to show up, and she has a record of ignoring our invitations.
What value does an invitation have if she's ignored it three times already?
We need to make it a condition that we go to clause-by-clause to get the finance minister who, once again, is asking Canadian taxpayers for $490 billion and won't show up for two hours to talk to Canadians. That is an embarrassment. I'm sorry, but it is.
With that, I will end my point of order and turn my time back to Mr. Perkins.