I just want people to know that I don't want to make this a situation of people being embarrassed because they didn't support a subcommittee to look at disabilities. I put it forward because the disability community wanted a subcommittee set. We've done this before, and it doesn't mean that this committee gets itself bogged down in two or three different studies at one time. There's a parallel committee, a group of people. The Liberals obviously have a disability critic. We have a disability critic. I'm not sure about how the Conservative caucus is organized around that, but that they would meet specifically on issues of disability.... It's obvious today that we're not on the same page, so I would withdraw the motion, with the proviso that we speak further about it and see if we can find a way to get this thing done and get it done as soon as possible.
On November 26th, 2007. See this statement in context.