Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I must state for the record that we are more than willing to compromise on the government side. We've shown this time and time again since this committee started.
First of all, a few days ago we were asked to bring in the chair of the committee for the advisory board. We did that with very short notice. I believe the official opposition wanted the whole committee to come in. We were more than willing to try to get as many people in as possible.
Today I witnessed that we had the chairman here, and the whole time, barely anybody was listening to her qualifications and her answers.
On the record, I want to state that as I sat here watching this process—I am new to this committee—I found it really interesting that the opposition was so interested in bringing somebody in to question their abilities, but then, when she was here, they didn't care to listen to her abilities. I found that a little bit appalling, actually.
Once again, I'm not opposing what you're saying, and we are more than willing to compromise on this one as well. I just hope that going forward....
We have another witness we were supposed to question today. He's been sitting here all day, prepared to give his answers and prepared to speak today, so we've been showing a lot of compromise.
I think we are ready to vote on this side and to continue to show that we are more than willing to cooperate and make things work on this committee.
Thank you.