Mr. Chair, I'll just wrap it up from our side. We've listened to a lot of talk, mainly from the Bloc and the NDP and us. I think members of the Liberal Party came with their minds pretty well made up and fairly closed, and that's their prerogative.
This is not to stall or slow down anything. It's similar to what Mr. Lunney said. It's an opportunity, which I think we have a responsibility to take, to talk to the people who have done a very extensive in-depth report that's going to affect Canada significantly. It's going to affect us internationally. It's going to affect our allies. It's going to affect fundamentally the people we're trying to help in Afghanistan.
Frankly, I think it's irresponsible for this committee not to take the opportunity to do that. It's for the benefit of the Canadian public and Parliament that we do that. I'm not angry at Mr. Bachand--I could never get angry at Mr. Bachand. But I have to say that I'm incredibly disappointed, if the vote goes the way it will apparently go, that the opposition members of this committee will deprive Canadians and deprive Parliament of the opportunity to hear some people that we should, frankly, hear.
We have compromised on this side to make it work, suggesting that we could meet even singly as a committee. We've compromised on the questioning to give the NDP twice as many questions as they would normally get and to give the Bloc 50% more questions than they would normally get. We've compromised on the original suggestion to make the whole process shorter. We've compromised to say, fine, let's not hear from additional witnesses; let's limit it to the Manley panel itself and the ministers involved.
We've compromised all along the way to try to make this work for the benefit of Canadians and for the benefit of Parliament. I just want to express my deep, deep disappointment, if that's the way this goes, that this committee has chosen to deny Canadians that opportunity. And I'll just leave it at that.