I'll respond to Mr. Blanchette-Joncas's question.
It is about the overall issue that we're discussing and why it is so important to have the proper information before making all decisions.
My only request at the beginning of this debate was not that we vote down the motion but that we simply have 48 hours to review it so that we can make sure we're making the right decision. The opposition is wanting us to make this decision prematurely when we haven't had time to adequately review the information. The information I'm giving is all the context as to why we have to have all the information at hand that we need.
There are some members who don't feel that we need to be doing this. They feel that we should accept this motion at face value, look at it once and then immediately vote on it. If it is such an important motion and such a reasonable motion, then I fail to see how the opposition can object to waiting 48 hours. We can pick up the debate in 48 hours once we have had time to properly review this legislation.
It has been a common practice among the opposition on this committee that, at the very last minute, sometimes at the end of a meeting, a motion appears in our mailbox the second a member starts reading it. They claim that it's a simple motion and that we shouldn't have any problem passing it because there's nothing unreasonable in it.
Well, if there's nothing unreasonable in these motions, then I have to ask why the opposition does not want to give us the time to verify that these are reasonable motions. Given the length of this motion, the very few minutes we've had are not sufficient to make that decision.
All right. If anyone would like to interject to suspend the meeting at this point and to pick up debate on Friday, I would be very amenable to that.