Mr. Chairman, with all due respect to my colleague Michel Guimond, I think he is seeing things that are not in the Standing Orders.
I find it difficult to imagine that our committee would be subject to the five-day rule. The Standing Orders state that the person sponsoring a bill has five days in which to appear before the committee. That does not prevent us from studying the bill now, to decide whether or not it is constitutional.
We are not seeing the whole picture. If that is the conclusion we draw, that means that the committee could make decisions without been aware of the facts. I do not want to get into that discussion, with all the respect I have for Mr. Guimond. I know that he is pleading his case. When that suits him, he pleads in his own way. I respect that. He is a lawyer who knows everything. I respect that.
However, Mr. Chairman, it seems to me—