All right.
I would like to talk about the amendment to the motion itself. I would be in favour of Mr. Stanton’s motion, but I would like our frustration to be expressed in the preamble to our request. We have been asking the Minister of Justice to come and meet with us, or to present us with a draft bill, for a long time now.
In fact, in a motion passed by this committee, we asked the minister to present us with a draft bill by December 15 of last year. But he disregarded that motion. We are after all a parliamentary committee made up of elected representatives. The fact that he brushed off our request, that he did not even deign to answer it in writing or otherwise and that he did not explain why he was not presenting us with this draft bill by December 15, though we had requested this of him, has been very frustrating.
Since late January, we have asked him repeatedly to appear before our committee. To my knowledge—unless you tell me the contrary, Mr. Chair,—he has once again not even bothered to answer our request in writing. This is pretty cavalier on his part. Our frustration has to be expressed. He must be made to understand that this motion is not being pulled out of a magician’s hat, but that it is part of a long process, which has been going on for about a year.