The committee can order it on any timeline. The committee can order these documents right away. They can say it's to be within a week, 10 days or two weeks. It's whatever timeline the committee thinks is appropriate. They can order the documents to be produced right away in both languages, so we should do that. We should order these documents so that they'll be made public.
In an effort to find further compromise and in an effort to reason with the other side, my colleague Mr. Perkins has put forward a motion that tries to find a middle way. It orders the full production of the documents with suggested redactions, which will then go to the parliamentary law clerk. This is a procedure that has been used in the past as a compromise. Instead of even debating that motion, we had New Democrats and Liberals voting to adjourn debate on that motion. They did not even want to talk about our compromise proposal.
We'd be happy to talk further about options for how to make this issue move forward, but the motion the NDP has put forward is just a complete joke. The NDP members are trying to cover up for their complicity in the Liberal cover-up by putting forward a motion that pretends to ask for information; it doesn't ask for any information that isn't already available through a five-dollar ATIP. This underlines the NDP's disregard for the real interests of workers, of taxpayers and of all Canadians. Canadians paid for these deals. They deserve to know what's in them. If they're great deals, show your work.
Mr. Chair, I do have more to say on this, but I will conclude my remarks for now. You can add me to the list to say a few more words on the amendment. I do want to give a chance to colleagues to weigh in on this, so please add me to the list, but I will leave my comments there for the moment.