Make no mistake, Chair, I'm not making this up. The government's quoted words are there. The reason they didn't want to do public hearings wasn't that they didn't think it was an important part of the process, it wasn't that they didn't want to hear from Canadians, and it wasn't that they didn't want to go to certain parts of the country—all things they could have said about why they don't want to travel that would at least have been a respectable comment they could have hidden behind.
No. Instead, they did what comes natural to them, which is to lash out and insult people. So then we got the remarks about a gong show, a circus—