I just want to get the record straight.
In the previous government, we did consultations in this committee. We did pre-study, and if you look at the negotiations themselves, everybody who wanted to be involved was involved. If they decided not to be involved, they did so by choice. This agreement has been telegraphed, it has been talked about, it has been in the media. It has been in all sorts of different venues, including committee meetings across Canada.
If you want to extend the meetings for 12 more meetings, you're going to hear the exact same thing that you heard previously. You're not going to get any new additional witnesses. All you're going to do is delay.
My advice is, at this point in time, I can't support this. I vote against it and—