To respond to the parliamentary secretary, Mr. Chairman, we're quite aware that the responsibility lies with the minister. But you'll recall that last year, admittedly with a different group of parliamentarians, we were pretty unanimous in our concern about this issue. The idea at the time was that if we could reach a unanimous position on it, the minister, whether it was the minister last year or the new minister, would be grateful for our advice. And that is how we have to look at our committee, I think. Otherwise, why bother coming to the meetings unless we think the work we do is helpful to whoever has the responsibility.
Now, from what we've seen so far, we seem to have a very reasonable minister. He's new to the federal scene and federal responsibilities, and certainly he's doing very well, but we can't expect him to be up on every little file. So it seems to me that any work we can do to lift it off his shoulders would be helpful.
As far as Bill C-5 is concerned, I agree with you, that's the next order of business. But I understand that's true from the chair; that's what we're doing on Tuesday. We are going to get Bill C-5 through.
This is just another piece of that grouping of subjects that we mentioned at the earlier meeting, which is what I call cleanup of work we started. We really didn't draw any conclusions on this.
So I think Madam Demers is just suggesting.