Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm really pleased, after listening to my colleagues for so long on the other side, to give them the opportunity to perhaps sit back and relax and reflect for a couple of minutes.
I want to underscore the fact that this piece of business has been before this committee for going on eight months now, since last August, and clearly it is the will of the majority of the members of this committee that this have a fulsome debate. This has been brought forward by the steering committee, which is a subset of this larger committee, and clearly, as always, brought forward for the ratification of the entire committee.
Having said that, there is always the assumption that there will be an active informed debate rather than the sad-sack filibuster that we've seen from our Conservative colleagues for these many months. This is an important issue. There are Canadians who--