Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
As talented as I may be in my speaking, I doubt that any one of us wants me to go on until 8:00 p.m. with the arguments here today.
As I said before, I have no problem with the minister's coming in. If that's the will of the committee, so be it, but I'm trying to ultimately get to what our end goal is here. What are we trying to achieve as a committee? That was the nature of all the points I was trying to raise today.
Why are we doing this? What can we do to be helpful, not hurtful, to the process and to the public trust, to ensure that, going forward, the procurement process is done in a better way, that we don't see things of this bad nature happen again, and that we see people being held to account?
I am more than happy to go to a vote on this now, Chair. I'm looking forward to whatever the will of the committee is at this time.