On a point of order, you can only challenge a ruling. There hasn't been a ruling. I didn't hear him say “I rule...”; I didn't hear him say “I give a ruling”. I heard him say that the order of the day was to have Statistics Canada as a witness. We have Statistics Canada as a witness. He is simply proceeding with the order of the day; it's not a ruling, and you can't challenge something that's not a ruling.
Chair, I would say that you're within your rights. We have a witness; let's listen to the witness. You've already identified Thursday morning as when we're going to talk about committee business. Any motions dealing with committee business are out of order today. You need 48 hours to put forward a motion, because that is not the order of the day. The order of the day is not committee business; the order of the day is Statistics Canada, whether they like it or not. That's what's printed. That's what's in front of each one of us today.
You're quite right to say that we should proceed with the witness, and so we should. If we're going to break into a battle, I suggest that we go in camera so that we can discuss this properly as a committee. But if we're not going in camera, then we should commence with the witness. We've asked the witness to come. We have a witness in front of us and this is the order of the day. It's the business of the day.