Well, that's it. So here's when you're going to listen to me about it, because you won't let me sit at the steering committee and help you plan the agenda. You can call it a filibuster; I'm going to say it's getting in our two cents' worth. It's allowing the people of Canada to understand that we want to be part of the planning process for this committee.
I firmly believe that it isn't about railroading through a partisan issue; it's about setting the tone for this committee and its future work and the work it will do in looking at legislation. I think it's always been said by this group and by those who sat on this committee before us that legislation means something. Legislation is the work we're here for.
What we're being asked to look at is in no way legislation. It's not even investigating rules and regulations. I guess that within a wide, wide scope, Elections Canada falls under the control of this committee in the sense that legislation that involves Elections Canada comes to this committee to be ratified and voted on and amended before it goes back to the House.
I guess, using a very broad stroke, that brings us to the place we are today. But you know, in all the research I've been able to do.... I will admit that I'm still fairly new to this place. After two elections and three and a half years, I don't have the experience of Monsieur Guimond or Monsieur Godin or Madam Redman or Madam Jennings or Dominic--I don't want to leave you out; I guess I'd better mention you all--and Marcel and Pauline.
I don't have the same experience, but I've done my homework. It does not seem that the reason for having this committee is to investigate witch hunts. It just doesn't seem to be it. This Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs is actually here for the sole purpose of looking at legislation, looking at moving forward legislation that comes to us. And investigating the matters of Elections Canada would certainly be part of that. The legislation awaiting us on Bill C-6 is still waiting. We've talked about this one for eight months. Well, Bill C-6 has been here and back and here and back, and it is still waiting.
Madam Redman talked about there being election talk in the air. Well, we all know that it may be in the air, but it will be up to the other parties in this House to actually force the situation and cause an election. If they do, wouldn't it have been good to deliver to the Chief Electoral Officer the rulings on veiled voting and on voter ID and significant voter ID changes that seemed to be wanted by almost all parties on this committee? We moved forward on that. And now we're here again, waiting behind a motion that's a witch hunt, a motion that's here to look at only one party.
This committee doesn't work that way. This committee works by consensus and looks at all things. Mr. Lukiwski moved a motion and spoke at length about it last week. I guess I may end up repeating some of the things he said, but this is about fairness, first of all, on the steering committee, where we're not represented. And now a fairness situation that we're talking about—