I welcome that restraint.
Mr. Chair, the reality is that this motion excludes the key actors. It prevents them from speaking. It does not include former attorney general Jody-Wilson Raybould. It does not include Gerald Butts. It does not include Katie Telford.
The single meeting the motion allows or identifies is in camera. For those listeners who don't know what that means, it means in secret: no media, no transcripts, no public information, nothing. Total silence. And for what? It is the promise that we might be allowed to have a legal symposium about some theoretical principles which, while they might be important to the overall case, do not speak to the facts in this particular situation. That is what we are here to discuss. We're not randomly picking one of the many thousands of legal principles that have been debated in law schools by scholars for many years; we are talking about a specific case. For us to know the answer to that case, we need to have the key players.
I'm calling on the government to amend its motion to include all the witnesses the Conservatives have put forward so that all the truth and all the facts become known by Canadians. If the government has nothing to hide, it will allow these witnesses to be added and for examination of their testimony to proceed without any further delay.
Thank you very much.