Yes it is, because when I've suggested other witnesses, you're just about to vote against my suggestions, so it is true. If later, on Tuesday in camera, you decide that the witnesses I have suggested or my colleagues from the Conservatives have suggested are now important to you because they're at the centre of this matter, then, wonderful, we'll go from there, but we have this opportunity here today and you haven't even bothered to phone them, or have someone phone them or whatever the case may be.
It is interesting that we want to study remediation now after it's already passed into law.
In terms of the offer, I think Mr. Boissonnault made the offer to discuss.... I certainly won't speak for the Conservatives, but if you would like to hear what we heard at the SNC-Lavalin meeting with some of my colleagues, I'd be happy to show you ours if you'd show us yours. We will, in fact, come forward and tell you everything that was discussed at that meeting. I know the result of that meeting. When SNC-Lavalin asked for the special plea deal to be worked into a budget agreement, we told them no, and then we voted against it. You folks put it into an omnibus bill, which your own members sitting on the finance committee found inappropriate, and you still pushed it through Parliament. Actions speak just as loudly as words do here.
Last I will say that this committee in particular has a solid and well-deserved reputation for trying to find common ground over sometimes very tricky and difficult issues with regard to justice. It is held up as one of the higher committees. The amendment to the motion that I put forward today, Chair, was in respect to that tradition. I don't know if the accusations of partisanship and whatnot were also directed at me. It doesn't really matter, but to vote against what most Canadians would see as a pretty reasonable amendment.... If you're open to hearing from Ms. Wilson-Raybould, then vote for it. If you're open to hearing from Mr. Butts, then vote for it, as well as from Mr. Bouchard. If you're not, then you'll vote against it and those actions will speak louder than your words.
With that, I move my amendment to the central motion brought by the Liberal Party.