Mr. Chair, I will show you that I am perfectly capable of making my point in two minutes.
I am astounded to see that my colleagues from the Bloc Québécois are preventing the members of this committee from expressing their opinion on such an important bill.
In fact, it directly affects 280,000 jobs, and 200 companies in Quebec and 26 associations are concerned by the vague nature of some provisions in the bill before us, by the excessive powers given to the courts and by the major legal uncertainly which may well be the result.
Mr. Chair, it is important for us to take the time we need and not to rush through such an important task. Of course I will be supporting Mr. Woodworth's motion, but I am appealing to members' common sense. Earth to the hon. members opposite! This bill has important consequences and this is not the time to be playing administrative games, as you might say.
Rather, it is the time to come to grips with the issue and the time for members to be able to speak on each of the clauses, especially the ones that are devastating and harmful in the extreme, in the words of the Canadian Hydropower Association.
So it is really important for members to show some guts, you might say, and demand to be properly heard on a bill of such significance.
Thank you.