Mr. Chair, I do not see Ms. Ashton of the NDP raising her hand. She is not even asking to speak or to propose amendments to this motion. Am I forced to conclude that she will inevitably agree to this motion, which is a gag order? The government is trying to muzzle us with respect to this legislation, which, I repeat, is constitutional and extremely important for the entire Canadian francophone community outside Quebec and in Quebec.
What will happen to the Quebec amendments? Who will come to testify? You criticized Mr. Beaulieu for going astray, Mr. Chair, but I will not go astray. You are proposing that we hear from three ministers during a single meeting. However, we are not here next week and when we come back it will already be the week of November 14.
You are proposing that the committee receive these three ministers during the same meeting. My colleague across the table, Mr. Samson, can laugh because he knows full well that we may only have time to ask one question per party of each of the witnesses. That's completely ridiculous. We want to see these witnesses and we have been waiting for them since June. They were on the witness list from the beginning.
This motion is totally unacceptable. I will let my colleague Mr. Godin take over to propose amendments because it is obvious that we will never vote for this motion. I hope Ms. Ashton will follow us, Mr. Chair, because I cannot conceive that the NDP, which is an opposition party, would support such a motion in such a hypocritical way.