Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I think it's ironic that the Liberals initially said they wanted to add witnesses and now they're in support of rejecting the very witnesses they wanted to add: Howard Sapers, the John Howard Society, Aboriginal Legal Services, the Black Legal Action Centre and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. These are the very groups the Liberals said we should add, and now we have Mr. Schiefke saying, no, they don't want to add them; they want to go from six meetings to one meeting. That is utter hypocrisy.
Mr. Bittle, to his credit, spoke with great sincerity, I would say, when he talked about the impact on communities. Now he will be asked to vote on going from six meetings to one. Ms. O'Connell echoed similar sentiments, and now she will be asked that this go from six meetings to one, gutting the very witnesses she said should be put forward.
I'm going to wait until Mr. Schiefke gets back to his seat so he can hear this.