Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's a pleasure to follow my colleague. I think it's important to speak here about the procedural context around this committee. Many members of other parties have made comments on it. I, in particular, reflect on the comments that Mr. Oliphant made and the comments made by Ms. McPherson on a “point of order”.
Let's be very clear about the way this subamendment fits into the context of the committee's effort to discuss and define its foregoing business.
We had a motion put forward that sought to upend the normal process of committee, to use a majority to compel that a particular study take place in a particular way with the implication being that it take place at a particular time. We had some discussion about that at the beginning. My colleague Mr. Chong put forward some reasonable substantive amendments trying to wordsmith a little bit to say let's—