I appreciate that it's time to wrap it up soon, but I just want to say to my friend, Mr. Fraser, in response to his comments, that yes indeed it has been our practice to deal in camera with the selection of witnesses. That's in the context in which we're trying to not embarrass people in public about which witness we choose and which expert we like over another. I think that's why we've done that. I don't think it's written in stone.
The Liberals' motion was that we proceed step by step all right, but I think we can agree that circumstances are a little different today. We have some serious testimony that seems to be contradictory. It's a matter of fairness to allow Ms. Katie Telford to defend herself and to be given an opportunity to confront the statement that I read into the record and our witness, Ms. Wilson-Raybould, read into the record. If it's a question of an extensive statement like she made last time, to which Mr. Fraser alluded, I'm happy to have her waive such a statement. We don't need it now. We're getting into the facts and so forth.
If the Liberals on the committee now vote down an effort to tell Canadians we're going to continue to get to the truth of this, they're doing a disservice to our committee and they're doing a disservice to the notion of getting to the truth.
I agree with Mr. Cooper. It's painfully obvious these witnesses must be heard. Let's just get on with it.