Mr. Samson, allow me to interrupt for a moment.
I understand where you are headed with your comments, but I would remind you that the debate must address the amendment that you have moved to Mr. Beaulieu's motion. As I understand it, the purpose of your amendment is to delete the part of the motion requesting that the committee “report to the House”, to delete all of point a), which requests “that the Chief Government Whip and member of the Liberal leadership team immediately remove MP Francis Drouin from the Standing Committee on Official Languages” and to delete the part of point b) calling for Francis Drouin to resign from his position as Chair of the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie and instead to propose that the committee write to the clerk of the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie—section canadienne to convene a meeting in order to vote on the presidency of that assembly.
Based on our previous meeting, I believe that the connection between the education continuum and the amendment we're debating was that debate on that motion and amendment would deprive the committee of the time it should devote to this topic of study. However, I would nevertheless like us to go back to the subject of the amendment, if that's possible.