Mr. Chair, had you let the question be finished we would have dealt with it a long ago, and it probably would be over to the Conservatives now.
The point I'm going to make is that never have we gone on tour--and this is my third tour with the citizenship and immigration committee--that we did not bring in other issues, if the member so desired to raise them. There's nothing in the Standing Orders saying that's the only thing you can talk about, number one. Number two, had we been aware, had the committee been aware--they approved the travel--that Bill C-50 was coming forward, I dare say they probably would have asked us to study nothing but Bill C-50.
Mr. Chair, in that role, you cannot determine everything that might be 100% relevant to a particular issue. So had you been a little looser, we wouldn't have had the problem. But the point is that Bill C-50 is the most important piece of legislation before us. The parliamentary secretary asked the committee to try to expedite the matter--and I underline that--in the hearings to Bill C-50. So any information we can gather would have helped that process, but it didn't.
I just want to have that reflected in the record. That was my point.