Thank you so much, Mr. Chair.
The word “blackmail”, of course, is completely offensive. It would be like me saying, when the Conservatives said that they would allow part 1 of the bill to go forward as long as we split the bill and didn't have part 2, that it would be, under Mr. Mantle's words, blackmail. I would never call it that, but he would.
All I can say is that I've been here for 10 years. I know when people are genuinely trying to move forward with a bill and asking pertinent questions. I watched Mr. Mantle last meeting spend an hour on a very simple amendment, asking exactly the same question over and over to the point that it was repetitive to the nth degree. It seems clear to me that we could have, starting at 3:30, gone through 20 amendments by now. We haven't—and that would have been at a slow pace. Certainly, some are going to be more complex than others, but there is not actually any effort to make it through clause-by-clause in good faith.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.