What's passing strange for me is that I'm trying to understand the urgency of this having to be done this morning. This isn't, as you mentioned, Chair, a routine motion. There's nothing routine about this. This is new. It is a new way for the House to do its business, which is fine. We always look for new ideas to make the place work better, but for committee members to sit here and pretend that they understand what the implications are, having not heard from people who might understand what the implications are is hubris and dangerous, because this place is filled with unintended consequences.
While I appreciate what Mr. Lamoureux is trying to do here to improve the motion as it is, we still don't yet know what the implications would be of either the old motion or the one for which there is now an attempt to amend. To then go ahead and vote on it seems stupid. It doesn't seem like a good use of committee business.
My intention and understanding of the committee's coming together today was to do a lot of the routine motions that we were trying to carry out, so that we could get into the study on how the House conducts itself with respect to MPs' expenses, for example. I know that's where you want to get to, Chair.