Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Thank you for coming quickly despite a short notice. You have managed nevertheless to provide us with quite an interesting document. You are not the only ones to bring out the issue of longer consultations. The majority, if not all of the witnesses who come here, call our riding offices to tell us that they do not have sufficient time to prepare a brief that would allow us to table the amendments ensuring that the bill will operate properly. We are attempting, rather, to pass legislation that in the end or in ten years' time, will probably have to be revised. In this way, we will have administered legislation over a decade that quite simply did not work.
I would like your opinion on the following: we had proposed that Bill C-11 from the previous Parliament be enacted. I know that Bill C-11 was not a perfect bill, but it could have provided a temporary safety net while the study of Bill C-2 was completed and while we could take the necessary time to draft a well-crafted piece of legislation, with necessary amendments that you, the witnesses, could have proposed during an in-depth study.
I would like your opinion on this.