Thank you, Madam Chair.
I'm not going rehash what my colleague Ms. Rempel Garner just said, as I think she said it well, but I do want to remind us here and anybody who might be watching that we were on a certain track. The track was that the Senate had provided this bill to the House without even studying it. They knew the content of it had previously gone through the Senate, so they entrusted it to the House. Why did they do that? It was because they wanted it done quickly. Everybody agreed that this needed to be done quickly.
That was the track we were on. It came here. One of the key issues was lost Canadians. Was that all of the issues? No, of course not. It was one of them, but that was the whole point of it. Rather than fix everything at once, the sponsor of the bill wanted to fix one significant chunk of this problem and actually get it done.
The fix has been attempted numerous times. There's always been too much bitten off and too much attempted at once to fix it. It's never made it through. It was a new strategy this time to keep it simple, focus on one thing, go through the Senate quickly and come to the House. That was the track we were on. Here at this committee we would have looked at it. I think there was broad agreement for what was in that bill. Once we had completed it and sent it back to the House, had the House voted in favour, that would have been the end of the story. It would have been implemented. That's the track we were on.
The track we are now on is because of, as my colleague described, the motion in the House to expand the scope of this. The government, the NDP and whoever else wanted to go back to the former strategy of doing everything at once. You know, if at first you don't succeed, try again—except the definition of insanity is doing the same thing multiple times and expecting different results.
What has happened now is that we've expanded the scope of this bill broadly. Yes, it's taken longer to get through committee here, but this isn't the end of it, because the track we're now on, should it be voted through the House, is that it will have to go back to the Senate. The Senate will not just rubber-stamp it. We already have indications—