Chair, Conservative members have exercised significant time in terms of the debate, and Mr. Lake has provided an amendment. If they wish to continue to debate the amendment, it might be fair for you to suggest to the witnesses that this may go on for another 10 or 15 or 20 minutes.
More importantly, though, Mr. Chair, we have from the parliamentary secretary a position at the outset that is highly inflammatory and comments that were extremely partisan—which we can expect—followed then by his last comment, which was a begging, an imploring. This face of Janus is just not acceptable, and I would suggest that if the member is serious about allowing the witnesses to stay, he ask for and concur with allowing a vote on his amendment, and we'll get on to the rest of it. Perhaps in 20 seconds we can have this over and done with.