Thank you, Madam Chair.
I wanted to clarify something with everybody. The reason Ms. Kwan had to put this forward is, I think, a core issue of trust. We've asked these ministers to come here a couple of times and they haven't.
What I thought would have been reasonable is for the minister to say, “I can't come that day, but I would suggest that I come this day.” That would, to me, be something that I could accept as an act of good faith. They literally can't come. I could believe that, because they'd say they could come on another date. However, what they've said instead is just, “I can't come.” I think that has caused us to not trust them, and that's the whole reason this motion is coming up.
For the Minister of Defence, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Justice, that is the issue here. We don't trust the fact they're going to come at all. That's why we need to bring this forward and we need to have some mechanism we can use to try to compel them.
I would like to amend this motion. It's very minor.
At the very end, it says “report...to the House”. I'm thinking, why “report...to the House”? I've come up with the words “so appropriate measures can be taken”, to give a bit more purpose to why we're reporting it to the House. We're not reporting it to the House for everybody to hear it; we want actions to be taken. We're not telling the House what to do; we're saying, “so appropriate measures can be taken”.
I would like to move that amendment. Maybe that's a friendly amendment we can all agree to.