I can see that we are in a situation where there is a bit of an impasse. It comes down to this. We're firmly of the belief that the government needs to be accountable for whatever happened in the period of time between November 8, 2021, and—I forget the exact date—June 2023 when the monument was announced with the changes that were insisted upon by the Prime Minister's Office. Obviously, that delayed this monument from being built, beyond all the delays that were already there prior to that.
I understand. I can see there's no doubt that the Liberal Party wants to avoid documents from the Prime Minister's Office being released. We won't accept that. That's not acceptable. The Prime Minister's Office should be accountable and transparent. We believe that firmly. There's no way we'll back down from that.
It seems as though we have a pretty clear indication that the Liberals will go to quite great lengths to avoid that happening. That's clear. We're seeing a filibuster. We're seeing amendments and we're seeing things to try to muddy the waters. We're seeing arguments that try to distract from the issue at hand.
I certainly agree with what I heard from Ms. Blaney, which is that there are things that need to be dealt with. I had really hoped, as I think many of us had hoped, that perhaps dedicating a couple of meetings would at the very least break down the resolve of the Liberal members or maybe they would decide that enough was enough. They could just let us have the documents that are needed to find out what transpired here.
It doesn't seem as though that's the case. This has dragged on for months now. We're certainly not prepared to back down, but I do understand the sentiment. We had a groundbreaking study that involved a lot of this committee's time. It would be a shame to see that not resolved in a report. I share that concern with Ms. Blaney.
I also share the concern about the witnesses who have been postponed twice now. I've heard from one or two of them. They're wanting to know some sense of when this will happen. We can't give them that because we don't know how long the Liberals want to continue to filibuster this situation. Maybe there's a way we can make sure those things that need to be dealt with, which Ms. Blaney has indicated, get dealt with, yet still return to this.
After consulting with our clerks to get some sense of what was possible to make this happen, I would like to move that the debate on this motion be adjourned until we have completed the review of the report on the women's study and have had the one meeting with the witnesses who had to be postponed, and that the committee agree to then immediately return to debate on this motion.