I haven't met many of my colleagues here face to face because we've only been in Parliament for two years, and for three-quarters of that time we've been meeting virtually. It's nice to meet all of you. Thanks for the introductions, and congratulations again.
I'm going to support some of the words said by my colleague Mr. Poilievre. Logistically what we're being asked to do here is to come up with a list of people whom we want to hear from on this matter. Some on that list we want to hear tomorrow already, and our list isn't even going to be prepared until tomorrow. The relevant departments, of course, are going to be determined in our discussions here.
I think we're really jamming this logistically in order to meet an end goal, which is too pressed. We have to go through the actual process here. The public expects us to go through this process of actually looking at this bill, hearing from people who are impacted by this bill and hearing what the minister has to say first and foremost, as my colleague Mr. Ste-Marie has said, about why we need to move on this bill as quickly as we do. There are some good reasons that we need to move quickly, but there are also some good reasons, I suppose, while we've sat and waited so long to look at it in the first place, to bring Parliament back to address what might be missing.
I do think that we are logistically pressed here. I would agree that we have to make sure that December 10 is not the end here, that we actually do look at the full spectrum of what we need to do here and stretch that so we can actually have some people come here, with the appropriate warning and with the appropriate presentation materials, so we can ask them the questions that are required to be answered here.
Thank you.