Thanks so much, Mr. Chair.
I appreciate my colleague's motion. I agree with all of the comments that my colleague Mr. Beech made. I was going to make the same comments. Over 12 hours of meetings are being proposed this week to properly take the time to meet with witnesses to ensure that we are going through this legislation in a proper way and that there's nothing being hidden in this legislation.
I also want to remind everyone that this legislation actually was made available on November 24. It has been available, so if there were motions that were going to be proposed or would have been proposed, I think that won't come necessarily when our minister is here, but I think there are probably already some thoughts in the minds of my colleagues on the opposition benches right now.
This draft bill has been made available for a couple of weeks now. Yes, it is quick. It is not meant in any way to fool anyone. We are going to make ourselves available as much as possible this week to make sure that we are properly looking through this bill.
I want to address a number of the comments that my NDP colleague mentioned, but I'm going to wait until we get out of this motion to address them, because I'd like to stay on point on the proposed amendment to the motion at hand.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.