Madam Chair, I will try to respond to the parliamentary secretary's comments as calmly as possible, even though inside, I'm quite upset.
The parliamentary secretary has told us that the government wants to cooperate and that it did not receive our amendments until today. At the last committee meeting, Madam Chair, the Liberal and Bloc members were not engaged in the clause-by-clause study of the bill for a number of reasons, chiefly because we had not yet received an impact study. Madam Chair, questions had been raised by deans and by provincial governments, questions to which we had not yet received any answers.
If the government really wants to take a consensual approach, then I would ask the parliamentary secretary and all of my colleagues to suspend the clause-by-clause study, to obtain answers to these questions, to return here to discuss matters in a consensual manner and to refrain from moving forward too quickly.
That's my response to his comment that we are not adopting a consensual approach to our work.