I don't think that we're at all trying to play down this, because there's nothing to hide. I think it's perfectly appropriate for the House leader's office to reach out on the committee's behalf. We work with the House leader's office all the time.
What we've avoided doing, given all of the comments from the Conservatives over the last few days about how our committee would not support any motion.... You're changing the narrative now. Before we were not going to support anything: we were not going to do it, we were not going to shed light on this. Now that we are, you are saying that it's because the PMO would drive us down. We deliberately didn't contact the PMO because you guys were saying that we were going to be driven down by them. I really do want to assert the independence of the members of this committee. I am very proud of that and I am very proud of my colleague on all sides, to be honest, in the committee deliberations for the last three and a half years.
I'm so sorry. We're still on the amendment. Ms. Raitt has spoken. Just so that everybody knows so they can get ready, we have Mr. Ehsassi, Mr. Boissonnault, Mr. McKinnon, Mr. Paul-Hus, Mr. Poilievre, Mr. Fortin and Ms. Khalid. That is the speakers list. Perhaps at that point we might want to consider the amendment, with Mr. Cullen having the last word on it, if that's okay with colleagues. Then we will move back to whatever happens after the amendment—whether other amendments, the main motion, or whatever—because we have a lot of speakers on the amendment, if that's okay with everybody.
Not hearing any objection to that for the moment, we're going to go to Mr. Ehsassi.