I'm sure he's listening; it's the foil hat thing.
Through you, Chair, I'm sure you would never think that.
But that's the type of legislative work this committee could be doing. I've given a good vision as to having people here as witnesses and getting that piece of legislation off the table before any other comes.
It's a good thing we're not backlogged with other pieces of legislation from the House. There have been a lot of great justice bills, a fantastic budget, which we've been talking about, and the other stuff the House has been working on. If it had been election financing pieces, or other things that this committee had to work at, it would be getting backlogged. Chair, it's very good that we are not behind in our work, and it's through no fault on this side. As I've already stated, there's the other side that continues to want to bring forward a very partisan issue, instead of working on the legislation.
One more time: if we work on the legislation, we may find ourselves with a gap that we could only fill with their piece of work. I don't know, but if back on September 11 we had actually gone to work on Bill C-6 and finished it, I would guess that we would have had a meeting or two on another topic by now. I offer that to my colleagues in this room, that we could have got there.
You know what? We came close today. I guess it was probably about 11:15 today that Mr. Lukiwski—
