Thank you very much, Chair.
I heard Mr. Richards say he had problems because of the volume. I can assure him that this could stop immediately if the government would come to its senses and just say, “Hey, we get it. Sorry, we didn't know what we were thinking there. Sorry about that, and yes, of course, we'll table this for two days. We'll get the information. We'll get onto the business”. Then Mr. Richards wouldn't have to listen to me any more.
Am I seeing that or not, Chair? I'm not. I'm not seeing any government members saying, “Oh, no, we're prepared to stay”.
What I don't get is this: they can't win it. The politics of this are stupid too. This is what really gets me. Who thought this up? Did the government really think we were just going to sit back and allow it to change the way we make laws in Canada when we can't get an answer to the very first question we had, which is what are the unintended consequences, or at least what are the consequences of doing this vis-à-vis other procedures and the rights of members in the House—in this case, potentially Ms. May and others. But it's not about her individually. It's about the rights of Parliament, and it's the right of Canadians to have a Parliament that functions in a democratic way, and there's nothing democratic about ramming through a motion that changes the way we make laws without even having the information about what those changes will ultimately be.