Justice committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the comments of Mr. Cullen, and of course I appreciate the comments of Mr. Boissonnault. I had prepared comments for today, which I will read, but before that, Mr. Chair, I do want to make a few points. First of all, in your pream

Justice committee  Is that the PMO?

Justice committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I will speak to the motion, and I will let the member know that we'll be voting in favour of it. We do think that's getting to the point, and for two reasons. Number one, it does deal with the issue of the witnesses who do need to be heard in this

Justice committee  I'm so sorry about that, Mr. Chair. Aspirations are always good. That's good.

Justice committee  Mr. Chair, as my colleague Mr. Cooper has pointed out, we have not received a response to this, and I think we deserve a response to this. Both in the original motion, which has now been amended, as well as in statements made by members on the other side, there's a reference to t

Justice committee  On a point of order, Mr. Chair, I've asked a question and I'm wondering if you can illuminate for us as the chair, because you're in charge of the agenda, who the government colleagues are who called these three proposed witnesses.

Justice committee  Mr. Boissonnault said "our".

Justice committee  Who are the government colleagues who called the three witnesses to determine that they were available?

Justice committee  Who in the House leader's office made the calls to the three witnesses who are available to attend?

Justice committee  It took me and Mr. Cooper asking the question about 11 times before we got the answer, so forgive me if we are trying to play down as to who did it.

Justice committee  I am the shadow minister.

Justice committee  Thank you. I've been called better.

Justice committee  Yes, I do.

Justice committee  Thank you, Dean Condon. I'm sorry, but I'm going to be asking you questions on this matter, too, based upon your testimony. I really do appreciate what you gave us at the beginning. This is not necessarily a hypothetical, but I'm trying to lay out the facts as a process. Maybe

Justice committee  Thank you. I appreciate that. Mr. Chair, for the record, I wanted to correct something that the honourable member said with respect to the resignation of Mr. Smith in British Columbia. If you read the Hansard and his actual speech, what he indicated is that he resigned from cabi