Okay. That's all we're asking. Mr. Lessard made a good point when he said that he and I should be allowed to finish what we have to say before you intervene and interject and start pushing your position. Okay? That's all I'm saying.
This committee worked well up until now, until today. This committee--what do you mean, “no”? We got through a lot of work, we travelled together, we heard a lot of witnesses, and we brought back to Parliament lots of reports and bills that were subsequently moved through that particular house as well.
This committee worked really well. Each committee is the master of its own destiny and decides on its own rules and how it's going to work together. Since I came here in 2004, this committee has worked well together. Some of us have been on this committee since then. Mr. Lessard and I have been two who have been on this committee all that time. It's worked well because there was respect for each party that came to the table. We allowed for a question; we all learned from the questions the others asked at this table.
I would suggest to you that if this is the way we're going to go now--that we're going to start having this reflect more the House of Commons and we're going to bring in these kinds of motions that make it more difficult for those of us in third and fourth parties to actually participate in the debate here--then this committee is going to get more difficult to manage. That's all I'm suggesting to you.
I would suggest that we stick with something that I felt.... It's funny, this is the first I've heard from Ms. Yelich that this committee didn't work properly. I've sat in on other committees and I've seen other committees actually collapse under some of the dynamic that was going on at those committees. That never happened at this committee.
We worked together cooperatively as a subcommittee. We worked together cooperatively on the agendas we adopted and we got through a lot of really important and good work. I don't know why we don't want to continue in that vein, in that spirit, and in that manner in this next session coming at us.