Chair, just my last thoughts because I think we're coming to a conclusion on this. I find it incredibly—I don't know if you'll allow this word—hypocritical to make the argument about wasting taxpayers' money when we take a look at a process that is a witch hunt and it's going to cost money.
Just calling these committees together costs considerable money. Not only that but it's pretty rich coming from a government that has a track record of fake lakes, gazebos, not to mention the amount of money they are spending on their economic action plan. You wonder if they are going to spend money on ads on this to advertise the witch hunt here.
In response to Mr. Lamoureux, the only thing that's worth commenting on is the fact that I am equating my motion with Mr. Lukiwski's motion to the extent that you can stand it alone and say there are substantive parts to it and therefore it's a credible motion that way.
But make no mistake. It's politically motivated. This motion is politically motivated and it has to be responded to. We're not just going to lie back and let the government use their majority to run roughshod over the opposition the way they run roughshod over virtually everybody else, especially those that are powerless to respond to them.
We may not have the ultimate power as the official opposition, but we are not powerless. Therefore, when these kinds of cheap attacks are taken, especially against our leader.... Just to make it clear, our leader said he was quite willing to come because the motion was there and it wasn't that the committee was doing him some favour by acquiescing to his request to come here. So this Liberal thing again of trying to find the little sweet spot, make no mistake: they are part of the gang up and their day will come too. Mark my words.
I've said what I needed to say. This is a farce. Everybody knows it. We'll go through it and it will be behind us, but what a waste. What a clear indication that the government has every intention of continuing their modus operandi, which is, “You're in my way. I'm moving you.” No matter who it is, what it is, and how legitimate it is, if it stands in the way of where they want to go, it gets removed. That seems to include even the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada for God's sake.