Thank you, Mr. Chair.
When I was a small-business person, and when I was talking to business people throughout the country as the spokesperson for the NDP and as a former Chamber of Commerce executive director, people felt held hostage by credit card fees. We look around the world. I know that in Europe and Australia they provided relief to their members by reducing those fees, and government intervention has been key.
I want to thank Mr. Scholten for bringing this forward. Do you think the current private member's bill on merchant fees goes far enough? I know that, while it further enables regulation, it doesn't actually require any legislation. Wouldn't you like to see something with a few more teeth?