Mr. Speaker, I find this to be kind of a pattern, that when opposition members have nothing to say, they go ahead and engage in ad hominem attacks. I will not engage in that kind of thing. When reference is made to a flagrant distortion, I will respond, as follows, for the record.
Let the record show that the committee has yet to respond to any of the proposals that I put before that committee and invited the members to respond. That is the record. That cannot be distorted. If the opposition wants to say it dislikes and critiques every one of my proposals, that is fine. Then put it in writing. Then respond. Then give me a report. Then do something. But the opposition members cannot get up in the House of Commons and call it a flagrant distortion when the committee has not fulfilled its own responsibilities to respond, at a minimum, to the proposals that we made.
I will say again, even if they do not respond, we will produce that access to reform legislation, but we would have benefited from that response had they given it to us.