I just want to respond to Mr. Woodworth's comments. He said that he was not aware of Commissioner John Reid's work, to which I referred.
That is exactly what I wanted to bring up. There have been so many studies, reports and committees, and so much work. So many of our parliamentary colleagues have worked on this, so many people have been involved. Commissioner Reid, who was in the position before Mr. Marleau, drafted a bill. So much work has been done. Everything is in place. We cannot just start over. We have to consider what has already been done. We know what does not work. We have been working on this for years. Now we have to stop studying the issue and take action. We have all of the information, the reports, the committees, the bills. The work has been done. We cannot start over just because we have new committee members. We cannot go back to the beginning. We have to respect the work that other people have done, and we can ask people to summarize certain parts if need be.
I read the Bryden committee report and the bill. The work has, for the most part, been done. The work has been done, the data are available, everything is ready. This is not really a big job because everything is in place. We just have to see what Mr. Marleau has to say. All he will say is that things are worse now than they were before. I think we need to face the facts.