The question at hand is that this motion could have been dealt with in a consensual way in the committee, whereby we would have invited the minister. If that was the will of the committee, we could have invited the minister in the normal way, as we have done in the past. Indeed, we have had occasion to have a minister, including the minister of indigenous affairs, in front of this committee, and that was at the express request of the NDP member. I can't speak for the other side, but for this side of the committee, we were very happy to support that request and allocate that time. Indeed, it is something we would be happy to do in the future, but right now, what we have before us is a motion that is going to waste valuable committee time and valuable House of Commons time.
This reporting to the House of Commons, make no mistake, is a showboat exercise whereby we will be wasting time in the House—time that could be spent on valuable legislation, such as pharmacare—and that will hurt Canadians across the country. I think we know what the official opposition's intentions are in that regard. It doesn't want pharmacare for Canadians, so it's doing everything it can to block it.
Mr. Chair, I will finish on that.