Mr. Chair, I do have an amendment, but I'll make a few brief comments on the motion first.
I think it's one thing for a party to.... When we look at some of the things that the NDP proposes, their political philosophy certainly seems to be to just tax the pants off taxpayers, because they know better than Canadians how to spend their money for them. That's quite one thing. You know, it's certainly something I completely disagree with, and it's certainly something I hope taxpayers are never subjected to. But that's quite one thing.
It's quite another, on the other hand, to have such a disrespect for taxpayers' dollars. When we look at some of these things that are alleged here, it certainly seems to me there's a misuse of taxpayers' dollars. At the very least there's a great disrespect for taxpayers' dollars.
They can sit here today and try to claim that somehow they didn't realize they were breaking the rules or whatever argument they want to try to conjure up here. The bottom line is that everyone in this place understands that there is always to be a delineation between the activities that we undertake here as parliamentarians and the partisan activities that are paid for, of course, by political parties. The NDP clearly doesn't seem to understand this distinction or chose to ignore it. That's more likely the case. It's a huge concern. I think it's very important that their leader does come here to answer for those things.
Now, I'd like to get to the amendment that I'd like to make. Certainly what I would be doing is adding a part (e), after part (d), obviously. I'll read it slowly so that the interpreters have a chance to provide the translation for it. As I say, it's adding a part (e):
from the House of Commons Administration, any documents or materials (including but not limited to emails, briefing notes, meeting notes and reports, and memoranda) produced or obtained relating to the subject matter of satellite offices; and
Then it would continue into the final paragraph of the motion. I can provide a copy as well.
To speak to that very briefly, it certainly seems as though the NDP has been caught trying to pull one over on taxpayers, and it's important, in order to ensure that the committee has all the materials it needs prior to this meeting.... We want to ensure that every possible material that could provide information that the committee would find useful is available, and therefore the addition of this part (e) would be helpful in that regard, for the committee to be fully prepared for the meeting.