Thank you, Madam Chair.
I sat on the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, and I saw how it descended into a very despicable display of partisanship. With all due respect to my colleagues on the other side, I've been hearing a lot of huffing and puffing, but I think we need to move on. They know how this vote is going to go down. Let's just get to work. Canadians expect better of us. We can sit here and we can play games all day, and you can filibuster, but the fact is, this motion is going through. Let's get it over with.
I agreed to make the amendment so we could actually get on to other business. We have other business. I think we have to start looking at the issue of the government appointments commission. We have witnesses here.
So we can sit and discuss this all day. We can discuss this all next week. But it's not going to change anything other than that our role as a committee is rapidly deteriorating. Let's just come together, move on, and get down to the business for which we're here, which is to hear our witnesses.