Thank you, Madam Chair. I appreciate your ruling.
As for the motion that's on the table, I think it makes sense that we would hear from him.
I just want to address quickly that Ms. Kwan mentioned a tactic—that this is a tactic, I think she's implying, to stall or something like that. This is not a tactic. This is a very serious potential breach of parliamentary practice and privilege. It's something that, regardless of what committee it happened in, is a very significant issue. It's also precedent-setting, and I think we need to deal with it accordingly. It doesn't matter what issue is before us today. I think it's incumbent on us as MPs to stop and deal with this issue.
I wanted to make sure that was that on the table.
I would like to propose an amendment to this motion. After what has been proposed by Mr. Dhaliwal, we would add the following:
, following which, the committee report to the House of Commons the potential breach of privilege resulting from the premature distribution of notices of amendments to Bill S-245, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act (granting citizenship to certain Canadians), to a member of the public before clause-by-clause consideration and amendments and subamendments were moved at committee.
I believe the clerk has this wording, not with Mr. Dhaliwal's piece but with this piece, so that can be sent around.
Essentially what we're doing is saying, yes, let's get Mr. Emery. Let's bring him to committee. Let's talk to him. Then, following that, we will write a report and report it to the House. That's essentially what my motion is saying.