Thank you, Mr. Chair.
You understand that I cannot agree with Mr. Serré’s amendment because it completely changes the meaning of the initial motion.
It’s also important to understand that as a member of the committee, I personally do not have to apologize. I will not ask my chair to apologize on behalf of all members of the committee.
Furthermore, I think this amendment is not in order, because it is far from the main idea behind the motion. I ask you to think about it and analyze the situation.
Before continuing the debate, I ask you to rule on the amendment’s admissibility, because we’re going to waste our time.
I think we have to speed up the debate. On the opposition parties’ side, we want to move proceedings forward. We want to move on to something else in the interests of official language minority communities. We have a lot of files to discuss. On our side, we did not spend two and a half meetings filibustering. We want to move on to a vote as quickly as possible to resolve the situation.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.