Claude has made some very good points that what we do here today and how we're going to handle what happened on the eighth is really going to colour how the committee is going to function in the future.
We had two motions coming from the adjournment of that meeting. One was the dilatory one, which was claimed to need unanimous consent when it actually didn't need unanimous consent. The other one...as she rightly said, the committee should have asked for the input once you made your decision, if they agreed with your decision.
Now, I think both of those motions should be reintroduced and voted on. I think that's one way to address what was done that day. Both of these motions were perfectly in order and should have been voted on then, instead of this rigmarole we've been through. And besides that, the way the witnesses were...20 more minutes would have finished the witnesses. There was no great big rush. We were just about done, and we could have gotten through it quite easily without anything untoward happening.
Claude was in the chair, and he was as shocked as the witnesses that this happened so quickly.
I think if we're going to act as a group, a common frontier, to do what we can for the armed forces in this country, then we should wipe the slate clean, begin anew, and deal with these motions--get them behind us and let's proceed with our work from there.