Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
On a point of order, I think it's obvious to anybody who actually was in the House last week, on June 12, that the Speaker of the House of Commons actually ruled on the advisability of the use of Standing Order 56.1.
Mr. Chair, I'm sure you would have read it, because this is something that has a great deal of relevance to the work of the committee. But we asked them; following the appearance of the leader of the official opposition, we said at the time that we had no objection to the leader of the official opposition coming forward to committee. We wanted to contrast the leader of the official opposition's availability with the fact that Conservative ministers regularly will not come to committees, defy committees, refuse to come to answer in areas—