Thank you again for ceding the floor, Chair.
In response to Dr. Powlowski, I think the difficulty here is that it's your own party that's causing the difficulty. You are pressing this issue to say how urgent it is. This is not the doing of this side of the floor.
If we have to work through the weekend, then so be it. I don't want to work through the weekend any more than you do. That being said, maybe you need to have a discussion with your own party and ask them why they are pushing this legislation so hard and so quickly, when I think it needs...as does Monsieur Garon. I don't want to suppose that I speak for him, but this requires due process.
I think that in order for us to be any part of spending at least, let's be honest, $10 billion more—not a small stone thrown into a lake but a boulder thrown into a teacup of money—I think it behooves us to be able to be here to support the Canadian people and have appropriate lists of witnesses.
Does that mean that it's going to take the weekend? It may very well do that, and if it's uncomfortable, unfortunately, for several government ministers, then so be it. It requires their plans to change. I do think, as I said, that it behooves us as parliamentarians to look at a $10-billion piece of legislation in a very careful and systematic way, and also to be able to bring witnesses who will be able to contribute to that discussion in a very forthright and honest way. It is going to take some time to have a fulsome discussion on that.
It's unfortunate, as you said, Dr. Powlowski, that your government wants to push this legislation, but from our side of the aisle, I think we'd like to make sure that we have a fulsome discussion on that.
Thank you very much for bringing that forward. I really appreciate it, as always.