--we are willing to open it up and would have all the parties come forward going back 10 years. We are willing to be more demanding on ourselves than the previous motion had been.
With this process in place, we would take away absolutely nothing from the existing motion. Still, there has not been one member on that side of the aisle who has explained how this motion takes away any of their ability to investigate the Conservative books. It only adds, opens the drapes to let the power of sunshine into the room. I quote Pat Martin on that, a member of the NDP.
I wonder if he still feels so strongly about those words that he used time and again on the matter of access to information. Pat Martin is a man who is a champion of accountability and transparency. He sits here today silenced by his party, and it is clear that this is coming from the top in the NDP, because there is no way that Pat Martin would ever allow his party to cover up his books unless he were forced to do so by the upper echelons of the New Democratic Party.
Mr. Chair, I conclude by once again calling in good faith on the opposition parties to do as we are prepared to do, open their books, allow the Canadian people to have a good look at them. Let's have a big old hearing here to get to the bottom of how all the parties have been financing their operations, and let's get busy doing it right now.