Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I really want to get back to questioning Mr. Weber. I know he has a lot of important information to give to this committee on behalf of his members, so I'll just say two things.
First, ministerial responsibility means that the minister should be appearing.
Second, in reply to my Conservative colleague, I lived through the Harper regime, and from 2011 to 2015, Conservative ministers never took responsibility for the various egregious scandals we saw—the ETS scandal and the Phoenix scandal that continues to reverberate today—and I don't want to go back to those days when there wasn't ministerial responsibility.
I believe it is incumbent upon this committee to have the list of witnesses who were involved. This is shocking. As a temporary member of the committee for today, I think it's absolutely essential for public accounts that we have the ability to question the minister, the deputy minister and the individual in question. That's why I'm supporting the motion and supporting the amendment.
I hope we can come to a conclusion rapidly so we can come back to questioning our witnesses, who have a lot of valuable information for this committee and for Canadians.