Thank you, Mr. Chair.
In just a quick response to Mr. Bellavance, absolutely, there are a lot of priorities we have to address but it wasn't just.... The Conservative Party is the only party that is against this bill at this point in time. That's the reason why, after the last vote, it came to this committee: because the position of the Liberal Party--and especially of their critic--is not very well known. It has kind of flipped and flopped on this.
The other point is that most of the witnesses are Mr. Atamanenko's; it's not our party that is trying to delay anything. I honestly think that Mr. Atamanenko has been more than open with delaying this so that we could get topics of the day continuously in front of it.
The legislation is a priority of this committee. I think Mr. Atamanenko has taken a lot of time on his bill and I think we owe him at least the courtesy to hear the witnesses from both sides, have a good review of this, and make an informed decision. Hopefully we can educate Mr. Easter a little bit more on the topics of this bill.