Thank you, Chair.
It's evident that the Liberals first of all do not want this motion considered at all, which is why they repeatedly voted against resuming consideration of it. Secondly, they're intent on carving it up every which way possible.
The intention of this motion is that the public, the taxpayer, the people whose sweat-soaked loonies are going into these big corporate subsidies, can actually know about the contract. Mr. Sousa's proposal that the public not know about these contracts and not have an opportunity to know anything about them, and that a small number of members of Parliament go into a locked room without their phones and look at them and can't tell anybody about what they see, does not satisfy our expectation of sunlight and transparency.
The proposal that he has put forward is designed to undercut the entire objective of the motion, which is a reasonable level of public accountability and scrutiny. On that basis, Conservatives and, I suspect, all other parliamentarians on this side of the House will obviously oppose the pro-secrecy, anti-transparency agenda of Mr. Sousa and his colleagues.