Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I like my colleague Judy Sgro's subamendment. I will digress for a moment, while I have the floor. It's too bad we cannot hear from the person behind the bill. It is specified that this act comes into force 30 days after the day on which it receives royal assent. I assume that this did not come out of nowhere. Verifications were probably made, but we will not necessarily know that.
As things currently stand, I don't see how the government or the Conservative Party members could object to a 12-month time frame. That's plenty of time. I even think it's a bit much.
As my colleague Mr. Albas said, the bill will be examined by the Senate and analyzed to death—including the amendments adopted in committee. While the bill goes through those steps before coming back to the House and being passed, the Department of Justice officials will already be able to start working on it. I think we have the ability to do things right. When the government wants to proceed quickly, it can impose an extremely fast pace. It would be very unfortunate if this matter failed to move forward, since we did have a nice unanimity.
We should be careful when examining regulations. You know that the Standing Joint Committee on the Scrutiny of Regulations sometimes has to examine very extensive regulations, and that can take time. One of the problems is that it always takes too long and that overly lengthy time frames are set.
We should probably be consistent with our own actions, given the nature of the offences and the upcoming change—the onus reversal. That change will not so much affect the administration of justice as it will affect lawyers and judges who will have to enforce the law. One need not have taken a big law course to be able to make the necessary adjustments.