Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Chair, I want to go back to where you started this meeting and ask for your indulgence.
I would like to ask a single question, just one question, of the ministers. I'd like them to take, through you, Mr. Chair, due note of the points I'm going to make in advance of the single question I'm going to ask them. They may want to write these down, because I think they're going to have to address them, but we'll work through you, Mr. Chair, if we could.
Quickly, before going into this, I want to correct the record on something Mr. Toews said. I think, Mr. Chair, if we look, we'll find that the Speaker has never found deficiencies in the motion that was brought here. I think there was an allusion to that, so I just wanted to make that very clear.
I want to go back to where I left off yesterday, Mr. Chair, because we are here today, we will be tomorrow, and we were yesterday to deal with the issue of contempt. I want to read once again for the ministers the definition of contempt. It is where “a person or a thing is beneath consideration or worthless, or deserving scorn or extreme reproach”.
Mr. Chair--