Chair, thank you for the introduction.
Thank you to the many government officials who have joined us again. It's almost becoming familiar in dealing with this and other omnibus bills.
I know that we may have some interruptions for votes at some point in our timing as well, but just as a general preface, and more to the government officials, it looks like there are amendments that have been moved by all the parties. We've looked over this legislation carefully in the last number of weeks, and we've moved a number of amendments in places where we've heard challenges coming from the witnesses.
We've seen just about 2,000 pages of omnibus legislation in the last little while from the government, and in all of those 2,000 pages, one amendment from the opposition has been accepted. Now, that would lead some on the government benches to conclude that their omnibus bills are perfect, yet in this omnibus bill we have corrections to the last omnibus bill, which itself had in it corrections to the last omnibus bill. So while I understand that there's always a political and partisan context that we operate in here, we are also endeavouring to make good legislation that's correct and is things like constitutional.
We have a number of amendments. We hope the government takes them seriously for consideration.
I appreciate the chair's direction in terms of how we approach the amendments and how we approach the clauses. The opposition, the New Democrats, are not looking to extend this process artificially. We're looking to get through the things that have agreement or that we don't have a great deal of comment on. But as the chair has outlined, obviously the places where we have amendments will be places where we'll seek to make comment and hopefully engage either the government officials or our government colleagues across the way to clarify.
But after almost 2,200 pages of omnibus legislation, you would think that we'd bat a little higher than one change to those many pages of law. We've worked hard on these, and our staff has worked hard.
Thank you to the chair for permission to open this up in this way.