Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank the witnesses for their excellent testimony and underline the fact that although witnesses certainly had excellent suggestions about more that can be done besides passing this bill, none of the witnesses raised any problems with the bill as written or suggested that its passage should be delayed. My view, our view, has been that we should expedite consideration of this bill and try to move it forward quickly.
I support not doing clause-by-clause consideration so that the bill can be automatically reported to the House and proceed more quickly and directly to third reading. We've been working on this for 15 years. It's been too long. I think that's what we owe to the victims of this horrific practice.
In that light, I want to share a notice of motion: “That the Chair be instructed to schedule an in public committee business meeting on Wednesday, November 23, and that the first order of business during that meeting be the resumption of debate on the motion of Garnett Genuis moved on Monday, November 14.”
Now that the notice of motion is out of the way, I want to say on a personal note, Dr. Gill, that my brother practises at the same hospital that you do, so maybe you recognize the name, or maybe not, but thank you for your service on the front lines on many important issues.
There were a number of witnesses who ran out of time in their opening remarks. I would like to invite any witnesses who had additional points that they weren't able to make in their opening remarks to feel free to add those to the record now.