I'm going to point out something here. I'm holding the bill in my hands, but the clause of this motion says that we'll start clause-by-clause consideration of Bill C-74 on Tuesday, March 22, and by May 23, if we haven't finished it by 9:00 p.m., all the remaining amendments submitted to committee shall be deemed moved. The chair shall put the question forthwith and successively. This means that there's very little way we can actually get through this. I remember that the last time we went through it, I reserved my remarks to about 12 to 15 clauses with which I had serious issues, where I proposed some amendments. This is a bigger bill than last year's, and it goes into far more detailed taxation issues that I need to read up on and on which I need to get up to speed, because it goes outside of just strict budgetary matters, I would say.
You're severely limiting my ability as an individual member to represent, which is why I kind of have an issue with the “limiting it to the party” thing as well, not that I'm all that verbose at times. I'd like to be able to thoroughly review the budget bill in its entirety, and in its minutiae as well, because a lot of these odd clauses get caught in that moment. I remember that in clause-by-clause you actually learn more about the budget bill than at any point because you hear from others on their viewpoints. I'm just a little bit concerned that we won't be able to give this bill the due diligence it deserves.