Mr. Julian is saying they don't have the answers, and I think he's exactly right.
That's why every government member over there needs to be prepared to answer to the media, and therefore their constituents, as to why they're prepared to change the way we make laws in Canada without even hearing what the implications are from our parliamentary clerk. It's disgraceful.
Does the government really believe this is going to hold? They're not getting this motion today. We are not without some means here at this committee. It's just a shame we have to do that in response to a government action that's preventing the rest of Parliament from getting its work done.
The government talks about wasting money. If this meeting goes through and we don't pass those other motions, there's an awful lot of money being wasted in terms of committee work not being done. The capacity is just sitting there. The staff are there. The work is done. Goodness knows, we have enough bills and issues in front of Canada. Do we not have enough problems and issues in Canada that we should be seized with, rather than having the official opposition spend its time fighting against an undemocratic motion by the government, which they're prepared to railroad through, that changes the way we make laws in Canada?
What the heck! What's going on here? This was supposed to be a simple, straightforward meeting. We come in, we do some committee business...the media didn't even bother to come into the room because they were under the same assumption as the rest of us, that, hey, it's all pretty straightforward.