Mr. Chair, I think it's really incumbent upon us as a committee to be moving forward on the agenda of priority matters that we've agreed on, a number of which have been referred to us by the House of Commons. The bill that's currently before was referred to us by the House of Commons, and we have a number of matters referred to us that are languishing.
We have not completed a review of the endangered species act, and we have not begun the review of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. A number of other matters will come before us. As I understand it, the commissioner will report on Wednesday. We seem to be bogged down.
I had agreed that my bill would proceed after Mr. Woodworth's bill and we expedited that. I think this is the most efficient and fair way to proceed with the bill.