Thank you.
Then let's talk about being disrespectful. What is this? What is this motion before us, except the height of disrespect of Parliament? This motion suggests that we should ignore the testimony we've heard over the last two days and come to conclusions based on an opposition motion. That's exactly what this is saying. There is nothing more disrespectful than that.
Over the last two days I've heard members of the opposition complain on countless occasions that there have been abuses of power, abuses of government, and abuses of Parliament. There is no bigger abuse that we have seen in recent history, in my view, than this motion. This motion basically tries to craft a report through the tyranny of the majority, without any testimony and without any evaluation by our analysts, who are non-partisan in nature and who have over time provided excellent service to every committee in the Parliamentary precinct. Talk about an abuse of a majority.
When the Speaker ruled last year, he said that there is something called a tyranny of the majority, and he was right. He was referring to committees, and this is the best example we can see.
Why are the opposition members so afraid of seeing a report based on the testimony that we have received today? Obviously we know that the Liberals want to find a ruling of contempt so that they can use it for their own political purposes, but why in the world are they bringing forward a motion like this, which totally abuses and disrespects the conventions, policies, procedures, and practices of Parliament?