That's the motion that was put forth as soon as we opened our hearing this morning.
It effectively says that the job we undertook on Tuesday morning in a two-hour meeting, with a scheduled two-hour meeting today and other scheduled meetings next week, on Tuesday and Thursday, in a session of Parliament that just began a couple of weeks ago.... It says that this bill, which is composed of nine pieces of legislation, shall only be considered today and that it's going back to the House tomorrow in whatever form it is at 11:59 p.m. tonight. Debate on each clause is limited to a maximum of five minutes per party, per clause, before a vote is held.
That's the situation we find ourselves in, and that's the situation we oppose, because clause-by-clause consideration can't reasonably be considered to be completed effectively and given justice in that time.
Mr. Chair, I don't know if there's a will in the committee here, but we've been considering this now, and question period is coming up in a while. Is it reasonable to suggest that we suspend now and come back at 3:30 to allow people to go to question period and prepare for question period?