Thank you, Mr. Chair. Again, that was refreshing.
I will comment on a couple of comments that were made in that roundabout.
Mr. Kelloway said, “We're trying to get this done, so let's get to it and let's get it done.” Let's get it done efficiently and effectively. There was less than four hours notice given of who the witnesses were going to be here today—and I thank the four for being here today; we appreciate your work. I took offence to the chair saying that we're wasting your time, because I think it's valuable that you hear from us as well; it's not just our questioning time.
We need to do this efficiently and effectively. To review an act of Parliament, we deserve, and Canadians deserve, that it be done efficiently and effectively. To rush through something and not have questions prepared.... We didn't believe this study was coming up until, I believe, November, which would have given us a lot of time to review the current act and to hear from witnesses who may or may not want to appear. I spoke earlier about witnesses who did not want their names mentioned when they appeared at this committee for fear of retribution.
If we're going to review the act and, as Mr. Kelloway said, get it done—I would say “Let's bring it home”—we owe it to Canadians to do it efficiently and effectively. Mr. Kelloway's approach was to just plow through this. We've seen the results of decisions of the successive ministers to just plow through a process while not taking the time to look at questions, look at answers and look at reasons. We've seen cases where the decisions have been challenged in court. Decisions of this government's ministers have been challenged and they've lost, or the decisions have had to be stepped back. If we're going to review an act, let's do it effectively and efficiently. To plow through and rush through something—