The structure of the bill reiterates the recommendation that the members of the special joint committee voted on, except as regards the matter of the three-year delay. Everyone but the Conservative Party members felt people weren't ready. We thought that, a year later, it would be wiser to work on that timeframe.
I think we were lax in that regard. How was it that, at the moment when the committee tabled its report and a decision had to be made a few weeks before the deadline, the provinces submitted a letter to us that we hadn't heard about in the previous year? You allowed the panel to submit a recommendation to us that became a bill, and you talked about the constitutional right of the people who were suffering, but what did you do about Sandra Demontigny? What did you do about the main recommendation that this committee accepted by majority vote one year ago, and who said we had to focus on advance requests? How is it that we don't have a bill that contains that component when you had a year to prepare it? The final component on the mental disorders issue could have appeared at the end. Why are you abandoning people like Sandra Demontigny when there's a consensus across the country?