Thank you, Madam Chair.
I find it interesting that the member opposite used his opportunity of a point of order to ask me questions. It's wonderful. I'm getting them engaged. Perhaps they will learn why their motion is so flawed, so I will keep going.
My issues with this motion, and why I support the amendment by my colleague Mr. Bittle.... This was the point of my speech that they really wanted to cut off. I think it's because they will very concerned about Canadians seeing their track record on national security matters and how they care more about slogans than protecting Canadian Armed Forces members who are serving on behalf of this country.
In this amendment that we are talking about, I support the removal because the Conservatives are asking for relevant information. The relevant information that they are referring to later in the motion, which we will get to after this amendment, is information that hasn't been provided, but only because of the national security classification and because this committee does not have the ability to receive it in a safe and secure manner.
Their leader had an opportunity to receive it, because it's not being hidden by anyone. The leader of the Bloc and the leader of the NDP had opportunities. I believe even the leader of the Green Party reviewed this information, because it's not being withheld from anybody. It's simply being held in a manner that is to be dealt with with the care and security that our national security community expects of any member of Parliament.
When this amendment asks for relevant information.... I have outlined why I support the amendment and why I don't support the Conservatives' motion. I have seen some very concerning trends from the Conservatives over the last number of weeks. Previously, there was their inability to accept the non-partisan, hard-working national security community that came here and said you can't just release national security information to the public, because that provides our adversaries with that information as well. It puts at risk the Canadian Armed Forces serving members.
I brought up another reason why I can't support their motion and why I support this amendment, which is that the Conservatives showed a strange trend when it came to the Canada-Ukraine Free Trade Agreement. They voted against Ukraine and had some odd connections with the Danube Institute.
Madam Chair, in the last intervention, my colleague opposite talked about the common-sense approach of Conservatives. I demonstrated just yesterday, when we had a potentially serious incident at the Canada-U.S. border, that the Conservatives' common-sense approach was to listen to Fox News, determine it was a terrorist attack—