Listening to the Liberals talk about wanting to assure veterans that there are no delays and about wondering whether there have been delays really makes me think it's pretty obvious to everybody why nothing ever gets done when they're in government. Do we really need to debate whether there have been delays or try to assure someone there haven't been delays? I don't think there's a veteran out there who would say there hasn't been a delay.
We have passed the 10-year anniversary of the end of this mission already. This monument was announced almost 10 years ago. This government has been in power for nine years, and nothing has happened. Zero has happened in that entire nine years. To even have any doubt about whether there have been delays or to try to assure veterans that we don't want to see any further delays, I don't think is even credible at this point. Clearly there's a delay, and the whole point of this motion is to try to get to the bottom of why the Prime Minister's Office interfered to cause those delays.
What we're seeing, in trying to deal with that and to get the documents that are required in order to determine what actually happened here, which is what we're trying to do as a committee, are endless numbers of amendments, subamendments and filibustering tactics. It seems like it's going to be never-ending. This has gone on for months, just trying to pass a simple motion to ask for some documents and to try to find out what happened here. We even had the Minister of Veterans Affairs come to this committee not that long ago and say, “Yes, we'll be happy to provide the documents,” so I don't really understand why the Liberal members of this committee are still trying to cover up for the Prime Minister when the veterans affairs minister herself said she'd be happy to let them provide the documents.
Why don't we just make a separate motion if they want to deal with some of these other things? These are not really all that relevant to the motion. I'm not uncomfortable at all with the idea of any of that happening. What we need here are the documents to figure out why the Prime Minister's Office interfered to delay this thing and let this thing get built so that veterans can finally have what they deserve for the mission that they served in. Why don't we just pass the motion and get the documents dealt with? If there are other things that they want to study related to the monument we can always deal with that.
This has gone on for months and veterans are sick and tired of it, Chair, so let's get on with it. Let's get the vote done and get these documents produced.