Mr. Chairman, I believe we received an invitation from the minister for this committee to take a leadership role with respect to this issue. The Information Commissioner introduced a bill. Commissioner Reid and Mr. Leadbeater spent some time briefing us on that bill. In fact, I have the package that we went through here. We've done everything that one could with respect to a bill. Minister Toews tabled a paper in April, which provided some comments with respect to the commissioner's proposed legislation.
The one thing we haven't done, which you do for every other bill, is to have some kind of public hearings, where you could have the Mr. Walshes, members of the public, and indeed the justice ministry come to make comments with respect to legislation. Quite frankly, I would support continuing on with that process.
The only reason the bill went to the House was because of absolute frustration. We were going to proceed, we wanted action, and we were quite frankly getting nowhere with the former minister. If I could—