Thank you, Chair.
I appreciate the opportunity to speak to this. I think it's very important that this take priority in our studies. The statutory reviews serve a very important purpose in ensuring that legislation remains whole, that legislation remains relevant, that legislation fulfills its intended functions and that it maintains its responsiveness to a changing world.
This act needs to be looked at. It's relevant to today as much as any other act or any other issue that is currently on our docket to study, and it should take some priority. We need to be able to ensure that it is fulfilling its purpose. We need to ensure that there is appropriate accountability and the opportunity to change and make suggestions to the act so that it doesn't become stale and so that we don't become victim to unintended consequences—not just we here, but Canadians in general across the country. Probably one of the worst things we could do would be to be complacent about our duties to attend to legislation and make sure we maintain its relevance over time.
For those reasons among many others, I fully support this motion. It behooves all on this committee to vote to support this motion, when it comes time, and to proceed to this with all haste.