You know as well as I do, Minister, that filibustering doesn't just occur when committee members wake up one morning and say, “Hey, you know something, let's filibuster today.” They are instructed to do so. There are consultations, there are meetings between the whip's office and committee members, they are given a game plan and they follow it.
Minister, I don't expect you to admit that you or the whip's office instructed parliamentarians to filibuster, but can you at least show some modicum of honesty and tell us exactly what discussions were held between committee members, your office, the whip's office and the PMO, prior to the filibustering of those two committees?