If we send it to other committees to study it, make amendments, and actually vote on it, then why have it coming back? If we have to vote on it here and we have to look at what other parties....
Through the chair, yesterday you were talking about knowing what our party has done. That's fine, but what other amendments have been put forward by any party? We have to look at that since we have to vote on it. I don't think it's fair to say that on one day we get all the amendments and on the day after we're supposed to understand all the implications of those amendments.
Also, regarding the schedule, Ms. Glover mentioned that the idea of November 22 was because we wanted to follow the schedule that we have. I think the schedule was done well, in the sense that without changing all the dates, we can still stick to November 29 and have clause-by-clause consideration on the 29th. On the rest of it, we're not really changing the schedule in terms of the other studies that we're doing.
Let's not forget that there's also a week in the ridings. If we look at November 29, we can see that there's one week in the ridings, so there is a lot of time that is being lost by the other committees in regard to actually looking at the implications of Bill C-45. There's a whole week when we're not sitting and not actually looking at all these issues.
Hopefully, the members opposite will accept that we should take the time to look at it. A subcommittee looked at the fact that with the 29th we had enough time to send it to the Senate and everything. I think we should stick to that at least.
Thank you.