Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to respond to my colleagues across the way, first to Mr. Tilson through you, Mr. Chair. I do accept the apology and I thank you for the forthrightness you have demonstrated in the spirit of collaboration.
With respect to Ms. Rempel's comments around a contradiction, I would humbly suggest that the contradiction is in fact on the other side, because it was her colleague, Mr. Tilson, who suggested at an earlier committee meeting that this committee is independent and is not here to carry out the wishes of the minister. So I would argue that—