Thank you, Mr. Chair, I would profoundly disagree with you and what we're seeing now is the BOIE being used for partisan reasons.
What we're seeing is they changed the rules. We respect the new rules, but, Mr. Chair, what we're seeing is it's never enough for this government in its witch hunt. First they tried to say we weren't respecting the rules. Then they realized we were, so they changed the rules. We're respecting the new rules, so now they're doing a witch hunt, and the amendment that Mr. Richards is offering is in that same vein. It's let's just load up every document and material everywhere we can in the House of Commons. Let's shut down any other work that can actually help benefit Canadians and let's just turn things over to collecting tons and tons of boxes.
The reality is we respected the rules, as you know, Mr. Chair. BOIE knows we respected the rules. We're respecting the new rules. The rules were changed to try to monkey-wrench our outreach to Canadians and Canadians having access to parliamentarians, and it's completely inappropriate. It's a witch hunt, as Mr. Christopherson said. The whole government is focused like a laser on attacking any of its opponents, whether that's Sheila Fraser, or the Leader of the Opposition, or the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and it's deplorable.