Excellent.
The Conservatives are supportive of the amendment and the amended motion.
I want to underline our view that public hearings at committee are critical on this issue. It doesn't have to be as many hearings as we originally proposed last week. We're open to reasonable compromises given the various other issues the committee could be looking at. We feel it is reasonable to ask the Canada Revenue Agency to undertake this investigation, although it will ultimately make that decision independently.
We can't know for sure how the CRA will respond to this request, but it is reasonable for us to make this request. In the meantime, the role we have as parliamentarians for getting to the bottom of these kinds of issues should very much include a certain number of public hearings as well. I want to signal that while we want to be collaborative and we support this motion, we will be moving another motion that we think gets to the heart of the issue, which is the need to have public hearings here in Parliament that involve members of Parliament doing their job to get to the bottom of this. We need to have those hearings as well.