Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to say that the public accounts committee is a very important committee. It's an honour to serve on it. It's where we review the work of the government. It's really important.
I feel that the appropriate place to debate what was said in the House is in the House of Commons. That's what question period is for. That's not the work of this committee. This committee is intended to review, right now, the work of the Auditor General and the reports she presented today.
We had reached consensus on how we were going to proceed forward with that and then, all of a sudden, we get this unexpected motion put forward that is not at all related to what the focus of our meeting was today.
I feel it's inappropriate. I feel that the motion involves a discussion that happened earlier today in the House of Commons. As my colleagues have indicated, no doubt it will be continued tomorrow when question period happens again. It happens every day at the same hour, five days a week. That's the forum for that debate.