Mr. Speaker, it is a bit rich to hear the government say that the time has come to move quickly, considering that the issue has been dragging on for 11 years and that the government tried to sweep the misconduct scandal under the carpet. The government has just told us that since our work in committee is not to its liking, it is going to impose closure. I repeat, the Liberals are imposing closure to overturn the committee's decisions, one of which was supported by all the committee members, including the government members.
It has finally become clear that substance does not matter to the Liberals. What matters to them is bulldozing over decisions and, most of all, throwing out not only the opinions of the opposition parties, but also the opinions of the many witnesses who came to the committee, in what were likely highly difficult, emotionally charged circumstances, to make reasonable, justified requests, which we transposed into reasonable, justified amendments.
The Liberals say that they could not care less and that they know better than we do. Unfortunately, this gives us a strong sense of what to expect in the next three and a half years.