Mr. Chair, you read a little earlier the document that was sent to the clerk with the signatures of the members of the opposition. In my opinion, there is nothing wrong with what is being proposed. After all, the motion is broadly worded, leaving enough room for a discussion of contracts, the plane and a whole range of issues that I have also mentioned.
If we invite the Minister of Public Works and Government Services, we can discuss the signing of contracts. If we invite the Minister of National Defence, we can discuss the specifics of the contract. If we invite the Minister of Industry, we can find out whether it is possible to have the tools to calculate the economic spinoffs. I believe that everything we want to accomplish is in this motion.
In addition, Mr. Chair, knowing your open-mindedness, I am sure we will be able to discuss everything related to the F-18. We should not say that what we want to discuss has not been explicitly stated in the motion and that, therefore, we cannot talk about it. We are here to have discussions and I think the motion is perfectly reasonable, unless my colleagues think otherwise.