I just have to say that it is extremely anti-democratic to say that we're going to cut off submissions on a date that's passed already. There's going to be no opportunity for anyone now to say they'd like to send a written submission to this committee. There's going to be no opportunity, no posting, for anyone to know that we would have accepted anything written to this committee. That's never been expressed to the Canadian people.
This smacks in the face the Liberal government with its vision of transparency and openness with Canadians. You're cutting off Canadians from having the ability to engage at the committee level, and I cannot support the gutting of the motion in this way.