Right, and the reason we're in this scenario with the amendment is that you prorogued Parliament, and then came back and filibustered committee. That's why we have to extend the date. If this government ran as it should have in the middle of a pandemic, absent of corruption, then these documents would have been provided to me back in August. But no, a week before I was supposed to receive these documents, the government was prorogued, and everything was put on pause, so we're back in this place.
I am open to retracting the dates, to have the demand on the documents placed just before we come back. That would suffice for me. My concern, and the reason I'm talking about the future prospect of a snap election called by this incompetent government, is that my gut tells me they're asking for December because they know we're going to be back at the polls before then. That's what my gut is telling me right now. I'm going to call it early. I think this government is just begging for a snap election, so it would be very convenient for the production of papers to have a due date that goes beyond their election call because they know that after prorogation, when they go and make that walk of shame to the Governor General and call a snap election on Canadians, all the studies disappear.
I am unwilling, Mr. Chair—and I don't want to hear anything about a filibuster; I'm going to have my moment right now—to move from...any amendment that would result in the imminent delay of production of documents that should have come back in August. If they are in good faith, then they will see fit that we come up with a scenario that allows an immediate production of the documents as requested by myself back in June, May or whatever godforsaken day it was before the prorogation.
This kicking of the can on accountability leads me to think that we're hankering for another snap election, and I'm agitated because we just want basic, simple answers. I don't want to go back to the polls. If I have to go back to the polls, Mr. Chair, and express to my constituents that I sat on this committee for an entire year and we didn't get to one study because of this government, I will be furious. If you think this is passionate now, just wait until I'm unleashed on the doors. I will pull the clip from this particular meeting, and I will put it on repeat on social media. I will advertise it as to the kind of obstruction we've had here.
With that being said, I will share that I am open to withdrawing subsection 13, to allow it to be kicked to whatever committee is going to deal with that circus, but as it relates to the production of papers and as it relates to the priorities that we set prior to prorogation, I'm unwilling to budge on any amendment from the Liberal side that would have us kick the can beyond the date of the next snap Liberal election.