Thank you, Chair.
I really appreciate my colleague's comments around diverting time away from the study that was on the schedule. It's experienced many forms of delays. Our witnesses came, but unfortunately we couldn't finish the rounds of questioning. It happened again. We've seen it time and time again.
We are the Standing Committee on Health. As members we all agreed to the mandate and essence of what the committee does. We are here to examine programs and policies that matter to the health of the nation.
I don't know about folks around the table. When you have a motion that calls for the production of papers with thousands of pages, there are details that pour into data numbers. We have committees exactly for that.
It puzzles me why the Conservative members continue to use this committee to hunt for information, when they could hunt elsewhere. We could actually get back to the agenda of the health committee to finish the agreed upon schedule regarding the Liberal study on pharmaceutical sovereignty. That's the first point I really want to make.
Second, to my colleagues here, as you said, Chair, we are staying for extra time and extra hours. How does it respect a member's time when someone brings forward a motion that interrupts the time of a witness?