It's not funny. Liberal members are laughing about the interference by the Prime Minister. It's not funny at all because veterans deserve the recognition they're seeking. If you think it's funny that they're not getting it, that's pathetic. I hope you don't find humour in the fact that veterans are not being recognized. That's sad.
Over the course of a year and a half, we saw interference take place, and it led to a different decision being announced. There's been no proper explanation of what exactly took place. What this committee was seeking to do with this motion was get to the bottom of that and ask for documents, unredacted, that would show the communications that took place and exactly why the Prime Minister's Office felt there was a need to change the decision.
One would assume that if there was a good reason for that, it would be a pretty easy motion to deal with. They could provide the documents and show what the reasons were, and we'd get the monument built and move on. Then we could deal with all the other things that are important to veterans. However, that hasn't happened. For some reason, what we've seen instead—