Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I could not agree more with my two colleagues than I do at this time.
As I said already in my introduction, we offered to split Bill C-49 countless times in order that certain measures be adopted more quickly; we suggested it to the Liberals. We agreed and would have provided our unanimous consent to adopt it at the right time. We said this several times in speeches, as did the other opposition parties. We were ready to have certain parts of Bill C-49 passed quickly because we knew that a crisis was imminent, since this has happened before.
Even though some want to present Bill C-49 as an omnibus bill, in my opinion it is rather inconceivable to amalgamate the rights of airline passengers with the settlement of a grain crisis in the West. Explain to me how those two topics can be related, Mr. Chair. It's incredible.
Now they would like our committee to ask the Senate to accelerate its study of the bill to solve the grain crisis, at the risk of adopting, at the same time, provisions that would have disastrous consequences on the rights of airline passengers. That is not my role.
Some suggestions have already been made. If the Senate wants to split the bill on its own initiative, the opposition will commit to having things move very quickly so that...