Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Dalton, my fellow colleague, I understand your impatience and resentment. However, I have the right to speak like every other member. I have the right to talk about the motion that your colleague Mr. Beaulieu moved today, and I'll do so.
I'm disappointed to hear my colleague Mr. Dalton say that he wants to proceed with the vote. We could have discussed a dozen other motions today that—I'm saying this for Mr. Blaney's benefit—would have probably enabled us to start working on issues that we all consider important. Ms. Lattanzio had an excellent motion.
Let's go back to Mr. Beaulieu's motion.
What hurts me the most about all this is that the students were penalized. Not one student was able to benefit from the government's commitment to help students in Canada over the summer and in the weeks that followed. Yet I believe that parliamentarians in other caucuses also made this commitment.
While the government took many other measures, this opportunity was unfortunately missed. I want to remind my fellow colleagues that it was missed for partisans reasons. People wanted to go fishing for scandal when there was none. This contract was never fulfilled, and the students were penalized.
People, especially students, call my constituency office every day to talk about the health and safety of Canadians in the midst of the pandemic. They also talk about business people who need help. Meanwhile, not only are we persisting with a motion that has nothing to do with our committee, we're still showing partisanship. It's appalling that we're still talking about this motion after spending an entire summer doing so.
Sorry for taking all this time, Mr. Chair. However, I had to get my point across.