I've heard lots of it already today with regard to my colleague, Ms. Thomas, but I'll move forward on the issue of the closure that the government is trying to bring and the limited time the government is trying to allow for amendments to a very important bill on freedom of speech. It's kind of ironic that a bill that limits freedom of speech on the Internet has a limited time for amendments and a limited time for witnesses to comment.
The chair said, as is the case in other committees, that this committee is in charge of its own destiny. When I looked at the past comments about the 20 hours, I saw that Mr. Julian said that this was a good start as a minimum. Mr. Nater said that we could revisit that partway through.
I think that's what Ms. Thomas is saying with regard to moving the time frame for amendments, which would provide more time for witnesses to hear the minister. The government decided not to hear from him today by rejecting the opportunity to adjourn the debate on this motion to hear from the minister. The NDP and the Liberal members decided to vote to continue this debate and then ironically said that, somehow, we're delaying the debate. It is they who voted to continue this debate, when we were willing to adjourn it.
Perhaps what I could add and consider going forward on this.... Yes, I spoke to this bill on February 28 in the House and asked to join today to be able to question the minister and participate in this, because it is an important bill and more time is needed. I was surprised that the Liberals were trying to limit debate—