One of the items missing from this, Mr. Chairman, is the committee business. It's not listed as one of the items that should be here. The practice, as long as I have been a member of Parliament, is that committee business is discussed in camera.
Now, while it may not have occurred in this committee, I have been in committees where we would have brought in witnesses, at a cost to taxpayers of tens of thousands of dollars, coming across Canada, and the witnesses themselves, heads of companies, who were there really giving of their time—so it's a cost to their business as well—only to have these witnesses begin their testimony and an opposition member bring forth a motion that really is committee business. The entire schedule of work that we had all agreed to is then hijacked, and at a huge cost to taxpayers.
So I will not be supporting this motion.