Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I appreciate the suggestions from my colleagues to try to fit it in so we can get as much in as possible, but I think that you are putting the cart before the horse if we do it that way.
I think that specifically the bill on firefighters' cancer is something that deserves to have witnesses so that we make sure this is set up properly. I'm the member of Parliament for Fort McMurray—Cold Lake, and firefighters in my community saw what was an entire lifetime's worth of exposure to many of these carcinogens in a month's time, so I think it is incumbent on us not to try to rush through this just to rubber-stamp it.
I think this is a critically important bill. This is not about being obstructionist; this is about making sure that we are doing our due diligence as parliamentarians to ensure that the best possible legislation is going forward. Knowing that we do not have a deadline of the Christmas break ahead of us, let's plan for success rather than try to just jam everything in.