I was not finished. Calm down! I have the floor.
Mr. Chairman, if we do not have the information by Tuesday morning, I say to the government that we will table motions for adjournment. That is what we will do. We have the right to have that information. If you do not want to give it to us, we will table a motion to extend our deliberations so that the government can invite constitutionalists to come and meet with us. If we do not have the information we require, we will not vote on the bill.
When the Conservatives were the opposition, there was never enough information available. Today, they are trying to make us vote whereas we know that the bill is potentially unconstitutional. May I point out to you that yesterday, we were ready to extend the debate in order to move to the vote but it was the Conservatives who got up to leave.
Therefore, there is a limit to making a travesty of democracy, to being pharisees and philistines. There is no point on voting on bills like C-2 if we cannot give the information to parliamentarians. I regret, but we are not faced with a privileged relationship involving private practice, the minister, and cabinet. I expect officials who have knowledge of constitutional law, who provided opinions to the minister, who are not from the private sector, who are paid with public funds, to give us that information.
Mr. Chairman, let me conclude by stating that if we do not have something in writing guaranteeing the constitutionality of the bill by Tuesday, we will table motion for adjournment after motion for adjournment.