Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
That's exactly it. When I'm giving all of these examples, I'm talking about what I've seen in the past. I'm talking about where we are standing today in this committee. We have stood here many times in the past in various different committees to no purpose, from my point of view.
We're talking about trying to build an efficient and democratic place here. We're trying to talk about the respect for public servants and the work that they do. I'm merely providing examples as to how I've seen this happen and not happen in the past.
To my next point, I was talking about service delivery. When we're talking about millions of pages of documents that need to be translated, and we're given such a short time, potentially, as is written in this amendment, to do it, why are we taking away the resources from actual delivery of services to Canadians? These are resources, as we've established, and as members across the way have also established, that are very necessary in order to provide Canadians the support that they deserve and the support that they expect. Why are we taking away these resources from providing actual service delivery to them rather than actually sitting here and debating an amendment to a motion that is taking away those resources from that?
Mr. Chair, I am quite perplexed. I had come here—because I vice-chair two opposition-led committees—in the hopes that it would be a nice, substantive, good committee where we can talk about the genuine issues that Canadians are really championing, whether it's dealing with cost of living, providing reforms to our employment insurance or working with the provinces to make sure that gig workers are provided the supports that they need. Instead, I find myself sitting here debating an amendment to a motion as to why we should not be wasting government resources to provide millions of pages of documents, and use government resources to translate all of them, knowing that members across the way who are requesting them are actually not going to read those millions of pages, and then also knowing that we have—