Mr. Chair, with respect, we are the committee for international trade. We have no purview to call the minister of any other department to this committee.
I think, first of all, the motion is out of order, and second, I think it is deleterious. It's meant to delay this. We have debated EFTA at great length in this Parliament. It really is at the clause-by-clause stage. Certainly it's not at the hearing witnesses stage. Supply management has been addressed in this. We have had the shipbuilders in. That has been addressed.
We can drag this out with motions, but it's not going to do us any good. And if the honourable members were interested in shipbuilding, the Minister of Industry was at the industry committee for two hours on the estimates and at that time any question could have been asked. That was a golden opportunity to ask questions in particular on shipbuilding or have someone else ask them.
I really question whether the motion is in order for us to request the appearance of a minister from another department.