At the risk of repeating myself, I would say that we need to have a full 24-hour day, something that I've been arguing for for some time now. I am not trying to shirk my responsibilities. I'm telling my opposition colleague that for reasons beyond our control, a motion that has been filed with the clerk may only come to us much later. Regardless of the resources we have at our disposal, you cannot ask anyone to do the impossible. I am a lawyer by training. In the legal system, for comparable issues, issues of great importance and that are fundamental, we set aside a full 24 hours. We are going from 48 to 24 hours. I understand the meaning of the motion presented by my colleague, and understand that we must move quickly, but we have to make sure that members of the committee are not taken by surprise. That is the difference.
On December 14th, 2006. See this statement in context.