Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Chair, the practice of calling for a challenge to the chair and summarily dismissing anything, including the ability of other amendments to be made, effectively means that anything that is not supported by a majority of the members of the committee at any time can be shut down simply by pushing the chair into a ruling and then challenging the chair's ruling. This means in practice that what the Liberals have just done, effectively, is to ensure that no matter can be discussed in this meeting or any other meeting when they don't want it to be discussed. No matter can be addressed; freedom of speech can be silenced.
This is effectively a method for muzzling opposition at their will, the will of the majority at the moment. It's a very, very dangerous precedent.