Mr. Chair, having heard Mr. Lalonde and having heard from Ms. Ablonczy yesterday on this, I for one am quite happy for this to proceed quickly--but not before asking one question.
I don't understand why, if the department has been working on this since 1999, all of a sudden, at the last moment, we get this huge pile of amendments. Did something happen very recently to change the department's view of what should be contained in the law, and that's why we got them at the last minute? If not, if it's nothing new, why didn't you think of this in the first place?