Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My comments are entirely procedural, because as you went through the process that we will be undertaking, I wanted to reacquaint members of the committee with the motion this committee passed under, I will admit, some degree of duress. This process applies only to me and to members of parties that have fewer than 12 MPs in the House.
Every committee has passed an identical motion and has done so every year since, I think, Stephen Harper came up with this in the PMO in 2014. Subsequently, after every election and once every committee dies, when they restart, they pass a motion that subtracts from the rights I would ordinarily have to present amendments on bills at report stage.
I only mention this because, when you say that amendments will come forward after they are moved, I am not, under the terms of your motion, allowed to move my own amendments. My amendments will be deemed moved. I have a right at that moment to speak to them, but not at length.
I find this whole process oppressive and discriminatory, but I follow the rules.
I wanted to make sure that members of the committee wouldn't be surprised when my motions are deemed moved, without my being able to move them, and that we would proceed in every other way—well, not in every other way but in some ways—as if it were a Liberal or a Conservative motion.