Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I had a conversation with Mr. Cooper, and I thank him for bringing forward the motion.
We have an amendment. I will read it:
That the motion be amended by replacing all the words after the words "the committee" with the following:
(a) invite the following witnesses to appear:
i. the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs with Nathalie Drouin Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council and National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister, for one hour;
ii. the appropriate representative(s) from the Privy Council Office, for one hour;
(b) after considering this witness testimony, report its findings on this matter to the House and pursuant to Standing Order 109, the Committee request a government response.
I will send that to the clerk right now so that he can forward it along to committee members.
The rationale behind that is obviously with respect to the appropriate representative from the Foreign Interference Commission. The commission is sitting right now and is ongoing, and I don't think it's appropriate for the person to come to testify.
Obviously, we would like to have the government's response to this, so that's why we're including that as well.
With respect to (a), obviously, I can't agree with that, but I'm amenable to some feedback from colleagues on that. You should be receiving that momentarily, and I hope that we can get somewhere so that we can settle this today and start that study.
Thank you.