Thank you, Chair. I appreciate it.
As my colleagues have indicated and as our colleague Mr. Davies has pointed out, there are issues that have been brought up, going back to Senator Raine's legislation, basically on the bill's being put forward. There have been a couple of changes to it. There aren't many, but there are some minor ones, because you can't resubmit the same piece of legislation. There are changes to it. As my colleague has indicated, a number of us have received emails from various groups looking for opportunities to speak.
I agree that a lot of this has been brought up in previous iterations of the bill, but ultimately, as we move forward, I think we need to also look at the procedural process that Canadians expect of the government, that when a PMB is brought forward, an opportunity is given for people to speak to it.
As to the length of it, I think it could be curtailed in the sense of the length of time and number of witnesses, but I think it behooves us as Canadians to at least have that opportunity and follow due process, as we normally do.
I would at least ask, respectfully, for consideration of this situation.