I do not.
At this point, the subamendment that I put forward, when I put it forward, was meant simply to say that we should be doing what we actually had agreed to do, which was to have the minister first, and then go on. I had made the assumption that the chair would do what we had discussed just before one o'clock when we said that the chair could call a meeting afterwards, immediately afterwards if he saw fit, to move on to discussing Ms. Sahota's motion. Of course the end time of that—and we are all familiar with that in this committee—is as late as we want it to be or as early as we want it to be. That was the initial idea.
However, it's now 4:14 according to my watch, or my iPhone, and we've actually used up almost all of the time the minister originally had available. Now she has said that she's here for at least another half-hour. But to be fair to the minister, she's indicated that she could be here, if we asked her, until five. Who knows? Maybe it will go later than that, but we're actually getting to the point of the hour now where the minister changes. We've used up the time, or have come close to it, and now there's a reasonable expectation that we will actually add this in.
A sleight of hand on the part—and don't get me wrong; it was not procedurally invalid, but it was a change from what we had all thought was going to happen—of Mr. Bittle has caused this to occur. That's what I said in my initial response. I was angrier than I am wont to be, but I do get annoyed, angry, from time to time, as we all remember from the spring of 2017.
Now I've lost my train of thought. I was so busy reliving that moment.
This has happened because the government side has engineered this circumstance.
I remember now what I was going to say. Frankly, at this point, I'm just doing this out of a sense of self-respect. If I can be rolled over that easily, then how am I going to go home and look at myself in the mirror, for God's sake?