Oh yes, that's right. Thank you.
To address that, what I'm saying is that the opposition has delayed the study of Bill C-6 and other important legislation. In fact, just to give some weight to what I'm saying, when I look at the outstanding business of the committee, there was a first report of the steering committee, there was a motion, then there was a report from the steering committee, then there was a second report from the steering committee, there was all the debate that ensued from that report, and there was a real obstinacy, to not accepting amendments, to not entertaining all parties opening their books. I'm saying their obstinacy in proceeding with this issue of election financing actually delayed the study of Bill C-6.
So I would have to say yes, the opposition MPs delayed the study of Bill C-6 by trying to force an election financing study that actually we were quite happy to accommodate if we'd open all the books of all the parties. Our position on that is that when all the books are open, everybody, Canadians included, will see that all parties have acted in the same manner, in a legal manner, and in accordance with election financing laws, and that there is no study to be done. That's the key thing. That's why by proceeding that way we would not have actually spent a lot of time doing a study, because the matter would have been rectified rather quickly.
But there's an obstinacy on behalf of the opposition to accept the suggestion—I call it the friendly amendment—to open all books. There's nothing to hide here. We're not criticizing the opposition for their election financing. I'm clarifying why they're—