Thanks, Madam Chair.
We've had nearly 21 hours of filibuster on this issue. It's quite straightforward: The majority of members on the committee have asked for the Prime Minister's chief of staff, Katie Telford, to appear at this committee and testify on the briefings she received on foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections.
This request from opposition members was precipitated by reporting in Global News and The Globe and Mail, based on their sources with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, that detail the attempts of the Communist regime in Beijing to funnel money and influence and resources into specific ridings, ridings that were targeted to affect the outcomes of our democratic processes. It is obviously unacceptable that a foreign state would engage in that. Conservatives have called for an open, public, transparent inquiry. Concurrently with that, we are looking to have the most senior non-elected person who works in this place, the right hand to the Prime Minister, who received those briefings, his chief of staff—the same person about whom the Prime Minister is said to have told members of his caucus that, if they're talking to her, it's the same as talking to him.
We're likely going to eclipse the 24-hour mark in this filibuster today, and Canadians want that cover-up to end. They want the filibuster to end. We should vote on the subamendments and amendments and vote on the main motion. As I will often tell my children, just because you get your say doesn't mean you get your way. I think we've seen over 20-plus hours that everyone has had the opportunity to get their say.
I won't go over two minutes and 30 seconds with this intervention, because I think all that needs to be said has been said. Let's get to a vote here.