Thank you, Chair.
I will speak to the amendment, but I also want to speak to the larger issue—and quite frankly, that's what concerns me. I'm going to underscore a lot of the comments, Chair, that my colleague, Mr. Hill, has already made, because I feel quite strongly about this. Although I am not a thirteen-year veteran of this place, as is Mr. Hill, I have been here a couple of years and have learned a few things in that time. I also brought with me a set of core values that I felt would be most important when dealing with my colleagues in the Parliament of Canada, because we're obviously charged with a great responsibility to represent those constituents who elected us.
As I mentioned at the last meeting, I have always tried to conduct myself in a manner in which my word was my bond. This was a principle—