I'm a guest at the committee, but of course this would be important in my constituency. I'm looking at the amendment, and I believe the effect would be to buy four months without debate in the House. I have listened to this carefully.
First of all, rarely do we see motions that bring members from all sides together, but hopefully all of us in the House agree that it's insane that the Government of Canada had to buy a pipeline, or got itself into a position where it had to buy a pipeline. I think we can all agree that what has happened since then has been a cascading series of debacles and disasters economically. I think it absolutely warrants a debate in the House sooner rather than later.
To my friend Majid's point, I've served on committee with Majid, and he would know, even with his short experience in the House, that the second this motion was moved on November 18, public servants were putting their papers together to prepare ministers and parliamentary secretaries and all Liberal members to have the opportunity to weigh in from a position of knowledge. I almost guarantee you that nothing will change between now and four months from now in terms of what is in the content of the choreographed series of speeches the Liberals will give in the House on this matter.
I am absolutely in opposition to this delaying amendment.