I am absolutely right. Thank you for confirming that.
The motion I have here is designed to get us down to work and get the job done. We have now heard every single witness and more. Every single witness whom every single party put forward has been heard, except for those who did not want to attend. We have heard all the witness testimony we need to hear, unless we are inventing people to put them on the list exclusively to extend the time. In fact, I understand that some of the witnesses who have been contacted on the remaining list are not interested at all in coming, so we really have no more witness testimony to go over.
Finally, it is probable that the House is going to decide it will not leave for the summer until this bill passes, meaning that if we want to get all members back to their ridings by the scheduled June 23 ending date, we have to get this bill to the House by the 19th or the 20th. That requires that we get down to business on clause-by-clause immediately.
So I'm proposing that we begin clause-by-clause on Tuesday, June 6, 2006, and I think we should entertain the possibility of witnesses on Monday, June 5, if members believe that would be helpful. I'm also interested in entertaining any amendment that would allow us the time to submit additional amendments throughout the clause-by-clause process. That's something all of the opposition parties have come to me and asked my opinion on. The Bloc, the Liberals, and the NDP have all suggested they would like to see that happen.
So without further ado, I move that the committee begin its clause-by-clause study of Bill C-2 on Tuesday, June 6, 2006.