Thanks, Mr. Chair.
First, I don't know why this came in the way it did. It's not even in both official languages, and I don't even know why we're accepting it.
Second, I'm very happy to hear the Liberal statement that they applaud some of these recommendations coming forward, and now all we're doing is putting the pressure back on the provinces to make a decision that we, in Canada...and that's what we got voted to be here for. You made proposals in Bill C-26, and that was doing an enhancement. We appreciate that, but there is a clause that we omitted and it's very important and critical, and the government in 1977 knew of that problem and they corrected it. They didn't go back to the provinces. They made that change, so why are we doing this, or prolonging it, and saying, let's leave the pressure on the provinces?
All we're asking for is a recommendation from this committee to go back to the report stage. That's all we're asking, that we recommend that this be amended in Bill C-26. That will happen, but to put all this other fancy little language in there, and prolonging it, is kind of embarrassing.
I'm hoping that the Liberals over there, my good friends, will support the motion of doing the committee work that we're supposed to be here to do and not put it onto the provinces.
Thank you.