Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to move that the committee delay our clause-by-clause consideration of Bill C-462 until after the committee has spent at least half an hour questioning witnesses who are independent of the government on the subject of this bill. The reason for that—and I believe that all the committee members will have received the letter from Hon. Scott Brison, for whom I'm substituting today—is that we'd like to get this request on the record because I believe that only five minutes have been devoted to that so far. Only 45 minutes has been spent on Bill C-462 so far, and only five minutes of that was for asking questions of witnesses independent of the government.
I'm told that a lot of people who work with the disabled, who need the disability tax credit, have learned about this legislation only recently and want to make presentations to this committee. The issue is the maximum price set for a consultant to help with the application for the disability tax credit. That price level will affect the economics of the whole service of helping people access the disability tax credit, and it's left unsettled by this legislation. It probably should be considered, or at least some testimony put on the record, here at this committee.
So we'd like to just have 25 more minutes of testimony from witnesses independent of the government.