Thank you, Mr. Chair. And through you to the committee, I might first suggest that you come up with some sort of ranking mechanism for those points of order so we'll know who's doing the better job. It might give us some sport to follow while we do this.
To be brief, because a lot has been covered, three other parties sitting around this table today have, first of all—and I think I really need to reinforce the points—overruled the ruling of the chair, a very well researched ruling of the chair, I might add, that you spent some great time doing and I think were very detailed in why the points of reference. And my friend Mr. Reid mentioned the terms or points of reference, because we've been through this before, where we find that if we just somehow narrow the points of reference to only what we want to find out, then good will come of it. How about opening the terms of reference to all that could be found, so that we can then do the right thing?
This committee's job is to review the legislation that involves elections and Elections Canada, and that's truly what we're trying to do here. Under the motion that Mr. Poilievre is trying to amend, we're talking about such a narrow point of reference that we can't discover reality. It's only about one thing, one party, one time, one place. This is unconscionable when this committee's job is to look at elections and elections financing.
I think we all came here with altruistic reasons to try to do the right thing. I think Mr. Poilievre's motion opens us back to that type of situation, and I can't find fault with it. I can find fault with why it's so narrow, on the other hand, but I can't find fault with saying, well, then let's open it up and look at what's real out there. So we'll do that.
Mr. Chair, since we're near the five-o'clock hour, I'm wondering if we could, for a moment, table and talk about a motion I put forward yesterday about the veil issue and what we are going to do about having Mr. Mayrand come forward to this committee in order to meet the terms of that motion, and that is to have a report ready by the end of this week. I think if we don't set that forward....
So I ask that we just have a quick discussion about how we could move forward with having Mr. Mayrand, since we are reaching the time when he may very well be going somewhere for dinner or something, and we would like to reach him, I would think, and ask him if he would like to come and visit us.
I will end on that point, and I beg the committee's indulgence on changing gears there for a second.