I'm happy to keep the floor because I did hear—I wouldn't say a heckle—perhaps a question from Ms. Khalid about my one amendment being redundant because it falls under point eight. I would note—and I believe this is actually her original motion—that the consideration of draft reports is far different from drafting instructions. The consideration of the draft reports are reports that have already been drafted under the direction of our committee. This would be drafting instructions on the new reports that may or may not come out of this report.
Let's go back to the amendment, which I believe I have the floor on. I think it's important that we remove point nine, plain and simple. I think this would be the antithesis of a democratic society, where we would knowingly and freely condemn ourselves to being unable to respond to things that may or may not arise in the six weeks.
Now, perhaps there may be things that Liberals know are coming down the pipe that would be unfriendly to their narrative, or perhaps the fall economic statement that's coming on December 16 will be so bad that they don't want the opportunity to be anywhere near Ottawa to be held to account for their blown deficit projections.
My friend Mr. Drouin claims rightly that he's always near Ottawa. He does have the wonderful benefit of being from a beautiful part of eastern Ontario, where he is within—