Thank you very much Madam Chair.
I would just like to understand what harm there is in using a private members' bill when it is a normal process for this type of recognition. We are talking about nothing more than a recommendation here. In fact, the committee has no authority for imposing this. If the government wants to proceed with this proclamation for 2013, it will have to do so through a bill that will debated in the House.
I am simply trying to understand how this might be contradictory. If the committee's objective is to ask the government to introduce a bill to be debated by the House to proclaim 2013 the year of the brain, how is that different than other types of processes where hon. members introduce bills in the House to designate a day, a month or a year commemorating a certain disease or event that they consider important?
Wherein lies the problem?