Okay, I'm just checking.
I'll be really honest with you. The banks had a great week. Champagne, popping the corks—I wish I had these new mortgage rules with longer debt, higher levels of debt for housing. It was a great week for the bankers.
I actually support his motion, and I'd be happy to have it go first if we can also, in spirit, agree that we should be looking at quick, little in-and-out studies on whether funding programs are working. I think we should be able to have our legislative cake and eat it too. We can look at bills but also just come in with a few recommendations, ask a few witnesses whether they agree with those recommendations and report back to the House quickly so that....
My colleague from the Bloc said, the end is nigh—in a different way. We are at the end of this Parliament. We will be going into a campaign at some point. I think that it behooves us, and Canadians who are considering how to vote in the next election, to look at recommendations, even for our own platform development, on how to improve some of these programs so that it becomes a productive conversation with Canadians rather than just.... We need to have checks and balances on the funds coming out of ISED. It's kind of bad. Even if the intent is good, the management has been bad.
Management can be fixed with the right type of oversight and recommendations. I would speak in favour of this motion or other similar motions. If my colleague from the Bloc would like to amend it, I'm fine with that. If my colleague from the NDP would like his motion to go first, I think we could do that too. If we'd like to sit for extra meetings, I'm okay with that, but we need to do all of these things. Thank you.