Thank you, Chair.
I am very disappointed that we're not able to proceed with a motion to get back to the witnesses. The government's position seems to be that it will refuse to allow the witnesses to testify as a way of forcing us to advance a motion that is poorly drafted and out of order and seeks to ignore the established rules of the House of Commons without any kind of dialogue whatsoever. This is, unfortunately, clearly a way for it to avoid hearing the testimony that Plato and the Ghost Warrior Society have to offer.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. We're ready to discuss some procedure around how we can approach these meetings in a way that conforms to the rules of the House, recognizing that the vast majority of parliamentary committees have government chairs and this committee has an opposition chair. Part of the reason some committees have an opposition chair is that it allows them to have a few additional tools to get to issues of government corruption.
We are trying to investigate the Liberal indigenous procurement scandal. As we have heard, there has been a flagrant disregard for what indigenous organizations are saying about indigenous identity in the course of the way the government has administered these programs.
People can go back and look at the discussions. The Liberals were extremely reluctant to have this study happen at all. They wanted to severely constrain the number of meetings we had on it. They wanted to severely limit the number of ministers who would be called. They have done everything they can to avoid us getting to the bottom of their own failures.
The Liberals used to talk about how the most important relationship they had as a government was with indigenous people. You don't hear them saying that anymore because, frankly, they've given up on delivering results. They tried to have a program that, on the face of it, looks like it's delivering opportunity for indigenous communities, but in reality, they have admitted it's not about that. According to the minister, the only purpose of the program is identifying indigeneity. As we've heard today, it can't even effectively identify indigeneity.
Liberals have been failing so profoundly when it comes to delivering results, especially in the areas of economic development and opportunities for indigenous Canadians and all Canadians. This is the context in which they have—