Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate this time to talk a little bit about the last meeting and this meeting.
I'm a little frustrated. It occurred to me, once I stepped back from the last meeting and this one—and hopefully that will change—that Ms. Rempel Garner obviously didn't intend, in my opinion, for her motion to pass during last Friday's meeting. If she had, she would have shared it with the Liberal members of the committee in advance, as seemed to have been done with the other opposition members.
Ms. Rempel Garner has considerable committee experience. She has considerable experience being a member of a governing party and an opposition party, and I have no doubt that she knows the importance of compromise when it comes to moving forward in a collaborative way. This is as true for a minority government as it is true for an opposition party, since neither has the numbers to pass what they want without agreement of enough members to proceed.
Presumably this is why she seems to have shared her motion with the opposition members; however, if it had been shared with the Liberal Party members in advance—and I'm confident that she knows this—we would have had an opportunity to review it and find a path forward, and I'm hoping that's still the case.
By not sharing it in advance, it was impossible last week to pass the motion. That should be even clearer now, as here we are once again at the table and she just dropped a motion and pretended that it was possible for everyone to be completely prepared to respond to it.
I know I'm a newbie to politics, but it seems to me a bit of a game, and I think many would think that way.
Mr. Chair, I have no doubt that she—