Exactly.
Ms. Meilleur may have the competence, but she doesn't have everything she needs to be impartial. Impartiality will be lacking. When she appears before this committee, or when she produces fine reports, every member of the opposition will ask who she is speaking for, the Liberal Party or herself? She has been attached to the Liberal Party for a long time. Let's stop fooling ourselves. She was a minister in the Ontario Liberal government, gave money to the federal Liberal Party and to the leadership organizers of the Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau. Are we going to be led to believe that she would be impartial to a post that is supposed to be apolitical?
With all due respect, Mr. Chair, we need to debate this motion here. Our committee is the one responsible for official languages and their management. If the Liberals on the other side of the table are at least concerned about defending their language, as we have done from the beginning, they will agree. This is one of the finest committees the House of Commons has. These people have been fighting for real issues from the beginning, but on their own behalf, not on behalf of the Liberal government.