Mr. McKinnon, I'm happy to respond to you. Unfortunately, your point of order seems to reveal that you haven't read the amendment we're discussing. The amendment says, in additional proposed paragraph 8, “That the committee hold 4 additional meetings as part of its auto theft study before the end of June.” We might have to shift those timelines, given how close we are to the end of June. Nonetheless, the point is that the proposed amendment deals explicitly with the issue of auto theft, so it is curious for you to say that the issue of auto theft has no relevance to the amendment, when the amendment includes a proposal for additional meetings precisely on the issue of auto theft.
I think Mr. McKinnon has revealed something that doesn't entirely surprise me, which is that he and perhaps other members of this committee have not even familiarized themselves with the amendment we're talking about.
Of course, they would have had weeks to do so, because we moved this amendment a number of weeks ago. It's on the public record, and it is regarding the agenda of the committee. If we're going to have a discussion about it, members should have read it. On the other hand, I sympathize with members like Mr. McKinnon, who did not read the amendment and weren't prepared for this discussion today, because this wasn't what was on the agenda.