Thank you, Chair.
I want to applaud Mr. MacGregor for bringing this forward today. We've all mentioned on this side of the table today—and I'm sure it has to be happening to my Liberal colleagues too, that their emails and phones are just bursting with questions about what's going on right now. I know ours are. Last weekend alone we had over 700 emails on Saturday and Sunday asking questions about this tumultuous time that Canada is in right now. I've never seen our country so divided. Quite frankly, the members from the government side themselves are divided. We're seeing questions over there: What's going on? Where are we going? Where are we heading? It's disturbing. The fact that some people want to put this off bothers me, and I find that disturbing. Let's get some answers. Let's get them as soon as we possibly can.
I think Mr. MacGregor's motion to bring in the Minister of Public Safety, and the department officials under him, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Canada Border Services Agency and the OPP will at least help us start to get some answers for our constituents. The residents of Canada, the people who are calling and emailing me, want, need and desire answers. We need to get those so we can provide those to our residents.
I wholeheartedly applaud Mr. MacGregor for his motion at this time. I'm glad it says “as soon as possible”. I hope that is quickly. I look forward to the coming days and to questioning these important witnesses who will be before us and to getting some great insight and some information so our residents will understand how we got here and how we're going to resolve this. Let's all hope we don't get here again.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.