Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to have utmost respect for the interpreters, but I will take my lead from you in terms of that, as opposed to a member across the way. If there's anything I should do to moderate my approach, I will adjust accordingly.
In the meantime, we have a Conservative motion ordering the production of these documents to provide workers with the transparency they need. That motion was defeated on an NDP flip-flop, and then they put up this fig leaf to defend their flip-flop by saying, “Maybe the committee should file an ATIP request.”
Consistently, we've seen that the NDP, despite saying they stand for workers, will give in to any kind of pressure from the Trudeau Liberals. I don't know if we should be, as a result of this, sending for the unredacted versions of the NDP-Liberal coalition deal to find out what exactly the nature of the leverage that they have is, but I am surprised and I am disgusted that the NDP would fold up so quickly.
It was not as if we were in the midst of some intractable filibuster situation. The debate on the main motion that the Conservatives had proposed had collapsed. We were into a vote and all that had to happen was that the opposition members had to stand behind their stated positions. All of the opposition parties had spoken and had said they supported the main motion that was on the floor from the Conservatives, which already included amendments from the Bloc and the NDP.
If they had all simply stuck to their positions, we would have ordered the production of these contracts. The NDP, however, have abandoned their stated principles, abandoned transparency and abandoned workers, but we're going to give them one more chance.
We're going to give them one more chance by moving an amendment to this motion that actually sets it back on the right track. I hope that the NDP will hear from Canadians, will hear from the workers whom they pretend to represent and will reconsider the importance of honouring the principle of transparency.
I want to add, in the first line, the words, “and upon receipt immediately post on its website copies” so that the first sentence would now read, “That, an order do issue for the production of and upon receipt immediately post on its website copies” and so on and so forth.
In the section titled “new (f)”, I will strike the words “and agencies tasked with gathering these documents be redacted according to the Access to Information Act with the exception that all companies must” and also strike the words “to correct any misinformation”, so it would simply read, “that the departments fully disclose—