Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I also believe that this motion is out of the scope of the committee, but out of respect for the Chair, I did not challenge you on that point. I think we can just defeat this motion.
I do want to say that I have always hoped that this committee would work together in harmony and would work together across party lines.
We have had an opportunity to work together on many important files. I have lost my opportunity to ask questions, as I was meant to do so after Mr. Paul‑Hus.
There was no discussion.... If Mr. Paul-Hus was really trying to get this motion adopted, he has had no discussion with anybody on this side to try to gain support for his motion, to explain to us his motion, and in the end, it's inherently political. Parties in this House negotiate and discuss things with each other all the time on House strategy and many other things. If people want to start going after some documents, others on this committee can start going after a lot of other documents and spend all of our time in frivolous games as opposed to actually moving forward with really important stuff, which, by the way, is the study that you guys put forward on air defence and the national shipbuilding strategy. It wasn't us. We delayed our studies to hear this one.
In any case, I will be voting against. I hope we don't have this happen too many times because I think it will, in the end, create more friction than it's worth.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.