Madam Speaker, as the member likely knows, the Greens supported the original motion back in June and we support the documents being provided, as the House has called for. We also want the House to operate. This is a significant amount of money, $400 million, but so too is the operation of this place.
The math I have, as recently as the beginning of this week, is that 160 Conservatives have spoken on this motion. If we assume it takes $70,000 or so per hour for the House of Commons to operate, that adds up to 80 hours, which is $5.6 million spent speaking on the same motion when many of us, myself included, would like to vote on the motion to send it to committee and have the committee report to the House on doing exactly, as I understand, what the Conservatives want to do, which is to get back to the original motion in June.
Can the member speak to any concerns he has with using this amount of taxpayer money to continue talking about the same motion when we could just vote on it?