The collaborative work of this committee has not, in my experience on this committee—or, frankly, yet in the House of Commons—ever involved the naming of a member who had asked a question earlier in a session and the condemning of that. That has never been part of the work of this committee.
Mr. Chair, we've done one kind of urgent study. We have looked at legislation. We have tabled two reports. We've done that work largely collaboratively in relation to both the content and the process of this committee. When the caucus leads on this committee have had concerns and disagreements over the process issues, we have worked with you, with the clerk, with others and with our own colleagues to make sure we could achieve agreement. In some cases, there were issues identified within our caucuses. We worked collaboratively on it. We said, look, we'll work with our members to see what collaborative space exists. I think we've been very successful at doing that.
We now have a new study here, which we are in the midst of doing, on a very important set of policy issues related to electric vehicles. The focus in this session, in the questioning and some of the expert witness testimony, and definitely the questioning on the Conservative side, has been on China, which is just one part of a larger set of issues related to electric vehicles and electric vehicle policy.
I would point out that on March 31, a result of this committee's work that was I think opposed by the other side...or at least half of it was opposed by the other side. The other side encouraged the elimination of the electric vehicle availability standard, which was done by the government. The government also brought forward new electric vehicle rebates, which the other side opposed. I will point out to the committee and to those Canadians watching that those electric vehicle rebates of up to $5,000 on eligible vehicles are going to be available starting next week, March 31. We can have a policy debate about that. In fact, we have had that. This session today would be a good opportunity to do that. Who is eligible? What is eligible? What kinds of vehicles could be eligible in the future? All those are very legitimate points of concern for this committee.
We have, as the chair has pointed out, a record of the conversations of the last hour. In fact, we have a record of what's being said now.