Thank you, Mr. Blaikie, for your comments.
I'd like to address two things from your comments, Mr. Blaikie.
Firstly, you said several times that this amendment is dead in the water. You don't believe that the amendment is appropriate or valid, and that it is dead in the water. However, nothing leads us today to believe that Mr. Turnbull's amendment is dead, or that it is not valid.
I respect what you are saying, but we also need to respect the government's position, whether it is a minority or majority government. The government would like to conduct this study, but we disagree entirely with the idea of having the Prime Minister appear, and that's what we are debating at the moment.
As for the second thing from your comments I would like to address, which mainly concerns the technical aspects of the negotiations, I'd day that what we are asking for is not really impossible.
I was not here for the first 50 minutes of the meeting, but you said that you had nevertheless had a good debate over the fact that we could obtain consensus on a new proposal that the opposition might present Thursday.
There's nothing dramatic about requesting this motion in writing to continue discussions and possibly consider the new motion or proposal that might be made to this committee.
Nevertheless, as we are speaking today, given the two points I've just raised, what we really want is Mr. Turnbull's amendment. It's not dead in the water and we don't need to move on to other matters. That's your opinion, but it doesn't reflect our discussions.
We said that we were prepared to listen and come up with other proposals. I heard about a few of the discussions from the first 50 minutes of the committee meeting and that there were even some recommendations. Could we not simply put them in writing? It's no big deal. We could then continue discussions and see where everything stands on Thursday.
For now, Ms. Duncan has the floor. In view of all the respect we have for one another on this committee, Ms. Duncan could continue to explain why we should move forward and adopt Mr. Turnbull's amendment.