Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Your ruling is obviously supported by many of us on this committee, and I hope eventually by all.
In the meantime, the NDP members should really, when they propose an amendment relating to an important article, do their own research. That's part of the preparation that we as parliamentarians must do.
If they don't know of cases in which section 100 has been applied, why is it part of a significant amendment that they're proposing in a clause-by-clause consideration of this bill? It is not the responsibility, and it is not a display of respect, for our witnesses to be playing the role that the Library of Parliament, that staffers, should be playing in support of the NDP members of this committee.
I take grave exception to the way that Mr. Toone has sidled in here and treated our witnesses, who are here as a technical resource for clause-by-clause discussion, as if they were bringing him up to speed on the issue for the first time. That is a mark of disrespect, and it is a waste of the committee's time on a scale that has been discouraged since at least the 1880s.