It seems inevitable that the bill will have to be changed, but we are not here to nitpick. As I see it, we are here to make decisions.
Mr. Hamilton, when you say that we cannot decide on this or that or the other thing, that just is not correct.
And I would like to come back to the main reason this committee exists, which is to let people know that we are not impervious to their distress. But it just is not possible to compare levels of distress. People are in distress, period. We have people here today who are in distress. In the House of Commons, and in this committee, we have the power to do something, and when you have the ability to do something, as far as we are concerned, you have a duty to act.
From the outset, you have had the support of the Official Opposition, the NDP and the Bloc Québécois. Earlier, you welcomed Mr. Menzies' concern. But we take our hats off to you. You took yours off to parliamentarians earlier, but I think it should be the reverse. We should take our hats off to these people, because what makes no sense. You may laugh, but it is not funny to hear someone say that they have to wait for time to pass, 2011, 2012, 2013—for 60 months there has been nothing—72, 84, 96 months, and on and on, until they die. Yes, that is right: when they die, that will be it.