Mr. Chair, in response to your comments, I want to remind the committee members that we don't serve the government and we don't work for the government. Our committee studies bills and other issues extensively, to ensure that the government is held accountable for its actions.
I want to remind the committee members that it's not necessarily appropriate to set random deadlines for completing studies. This doesn't allow our committee to fulfill its role. We'll need to analyze the bill clause by clause and ask questions regarding each clause to make sure we're doing the right thing and we're not making potentially costly errors. In some previous instances, these types of errors were identified after a bill was passed. We must take our work seriously.
We aren't here to serve the government and we don't need to adhere to the government's deadlines.