Mr. Speaker, all this motion does, in-between its first the fourth clauses, is to hijack the staff, and they knew it when they wrote it. It does nothing more than that. They put the four staff people in there and then later said that if the Prime Minister wants to come, he can come instead of them. They are literally hijacking the staff at the expense of the Prime Minister when they know full well that the people who would best answer these questions are people like the defence minister, who has already been to the committee on this subject three times.
The issue is that they have not been getting a political win out of this, so they keep looking for new angles, and this is their newest angle: let us go after the staff. They say they will give us out by stating that the Prime Minister can come instead. If that does not work, they will take another angle.