Thank you very much, Mr. Jean.
I'm going to take the next Conservative round here, if that's okay.
Mr. Kingissepp, I really appreciated your presentation because you talked about dialoguing with the Department of Finance with respect to a certain issue that needs to be addressed. Obviously, that dialogue resulted in changes that are before us in terms of this bill.
As you expressed, there's frustration about the time from discussion to getting to this point, where we actually have it in legislation. But you do say “...I would encourage all parties to enact this proposed Legislation into law at the earliest opportunity”, and then in your conclusion you reiterate “how important it is to have this amendment enacted without any further delay”.
It seems to me there's a lot of discussion that we should have done this years ago, even though, as was mentioned at our last hearing, we had nine different versions of different sections of this bill presented to Parliament at various times, and then we also had draft legislation presented with respect to various parts of this bill at certain times. So these measures have been discussed a number of times.
But I do want to thank you, Mr. Kingissepp, for raising that.
Ms. Presseault, I do want to follow up with you, because in some of your responses to Mr. Brison, I'm not sure if I was exactly clear with respect to where you are.
Parts of this legislation were introduced in the past. The bill was introduced in November. Briefings were made available to all parliamentarians at the time. One reason the government introduced it and then let it sit for a while was to allow everybody to have a good look at the bill so that when it came to committee, hopefully, the committee could pass it expeditiously.
You seem to indicate that we're not spending enough time, and yet in your presentation you were very clear that you want us to pass this very quickly.
Can you just clarify exactly what you want? Do you want this committee to study this bill longer, perhaps into the fall, and maybe pass it then, or do you want this committee to pass this bill expeditiously?