Thank you very much.
There are several difficulties that I see with this, notwithstanding the fact that the Information Commissioner may already have tabled a bill. There are, first of all, the obvious problems regarding the time limit that is inserted here. Mr. Poilievre was being generous in talking about two months. In fact, it's under six weeks, or about six weeks, and although I know things move at quite a speed in the House, it does seem to me to be unrealistic to expect the government to prepare an appropriate response.
It has always been my view that the more important something is, the more carefully the groundwork should be laid. It could be that the members of this committee don't attach that much importance to this matter, although I rather suspect the opposite. But if in fact the members of this committee do attach importance to this subject, I suggest that we really ought to deal with it in a more thorough way.
I'm also a bit concerned in that, speaking as a member of the committee for today at least, I haven't seen the bill that my honourable friend opposite has mentioned as having been tabled, so I don't have the details of that. I notice the wording of this motion doesn't refer to that bill, by the way; it just talks about the work of the Information Commissioner. Again, speaking as someone who is only a member for the day, I find that to be somewhat vague, and I'm not sure what anyone would make of it if this motion were entered into the record.
Those are my comments. I'm not sure, particularly in light of the economic circumstances we're facing today, why we would want to try to rush the government into this when we may be able to get farther with a more considered approach.