On Tuesday you did not mention anything related to the fact that perhaps this bill was going to require amendments. We wasted over an hour of our time, almost two hours, and none of this was brought up. We're not talking about November here, we're talking about Tuesday.
The credibility of the finance department, to present 39 amendments.... This is a technical bill. I don't think there's any expertise around this table in terms of the legitimacy or whether we should approve the bill or the amendments. That's not the point. The point here is that we're very uncomfortable receiving 39 pages of amendments when we discussed the bill two days ago.
Now, my question, if you didn't want to answer Mr. McCallum's question--I think this is a fair question, and I would like to receive a fair answer--is that if there are 39 amendments made to a very complex bill, are there any other amendments that perhaps should be made? Because there doesn't seem to be an urgency. I'm not trying to pretend that this is not a complex bill. If you need an extra week, please tell us now. We'll provide you with that time.
If you need two days to deposit 39 amendments, I'd hate to think what you're going to come up with next week, once we've already voted for the bill.