I in turn want to thank Mr. Saillant and Ms. Laflamme who has accompanied him here today. Both are doing an outstanding job and have shown an enormous amount of dedication over the years and therefore deserve our congratulations and thanks for the very objective analysis they have submitted to this committee.
Mr. Chairman, I believe they very accurately sum up the situation when they talk about priorities. In Parliament, this committee is preparing the next budget, and we have to wonder what our priority is as a society. I very much appreciated the fact that Mr. Saillant took us back to 1976, when we declared that our priority as a society was the ongoing improvement of citizens' living conditions.
You mentioned a bill in your document. I wanted to know whether you had the time to look at the private member's bill of my colleague Libby Davies. If so, what is your analysis?