Mr. Kroeger, thank you for your presentation.
At the end of your presentation, you said you hoped we would examine it thoroughly. You said we should take the time to do things properly in the clause-by-clause consideration because it's necessary to prepare a good bill. You were a senior official, and you therefore probably have considerable knowledge about bill. Between 1988 and 2000, 14 bills containing more than 300 clauses were tabled. According to one document from the library, the average time between first reading and royal proclamation for one of these bills is 196.6 days, or 200 days, if you round up the figure. We're being asked, we're being required to study Bill C-2 and pass it in more or less 40 days. Do you think, after reading Bill C-2, that legislators like us can do what you want, that is to say study the bill thoroughly and take the time to improve it in the clause-by-clause consideration with a schedule like the one I've just referred to?