Yes.
I am only an occasional visitor at the industry, science and technology committee. Although Industry Canada oversees the work and the mandate of the Standards Council of Canada, to my knowledge there are no particularly compelling issues to deal with regarding the Standards Council of Canada.
I know that my colleague, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry, was particularly concerned and interested in proceeding with the study before us today, and that the study be thorough and comprehensive. I struggle with understanding the compelling need for this particular study or motion, and having it interrupt this important study on pipeline technology, which has already unfortunately had some hiccups early on because of the hurly-burly nature of Parliament as we approach the end of the parliamentary session in June.
In addition, Mr. Chair, this sort of discussion would typically be done under the rubric of committee business.
We have witnesses before us who, as I understand, appeared at the most recent industry committee meeting, and that proceeding was interrupted. Now that we have the witnesses before us and we only have a short period of time with them and we're going to proceed right away to questions, we're further distracted by this particular motion and a discussion about it.