That said, I repeat, the committee is not able to do its job. We have the opportunity to ask candidates to give us the results of language tests and their résumés, among other things, but you have just voted against that motion. This does not allow the committee to do its job. We will be accountable to all the communities. You Liberals are going to be especially accountable to them later on.
Mr. Choquette said it well. Once the Prime Minister refuses to meet with the presidents of the associations of official language minority communities in Canada, whether they are francophone or anglophone, we will have a serious problem, and so will you. We are not asking to meet with the Prime Minister. The communities themselves are asking in order to have their voices heard on what has just happened.
We say that we want to appoint someone neutral. Do you know what the word “neutral” means? If the Conservatives were in power and a Conservative who had made a donation to the Conservative Party were appointed as commissioner, I think the House of Commons would shut down altogether. I think we would come to blows. I can be a true Quebecer when I want to. I can tell you one thing: if you want expressions, I can give you as many as you want. However, honestly, we are in deep doo-doo. That's exactly what it is, and you are in it much deeper than we are.