Thank you, Chair.
I want to pick up on something my colleague Mr. Lukiwski spoke about, and that was priorities for the committee. We did agree that legislation would take priority.
We've heard from witnesses, including the Chief Electoral Officer. We're basically ready to move. We're not done with legislation until it moves out of committee and back to the House.
I understand what Ms. Redman is trying to do in terms of putting pressure on accepting the report so we can move on with Bill C-18, but I don't think that does justice to the voters of Canada.
There's a problem regarding Bill C-18, which is well recognized amongst all the parties, that we're trying to fix. We're at the point where we can move it out of the committee in probably three minutes. Instead, a secondary issue is taking a primary spot and bumping key legislation that will have an impact in any upcoming byelections. To me, that's just not acceptable.
Actually, I'm quite surprised that she has tabled the motion in this manner and that we're continuing to debate it. The priority has to be legislation. We owe that to Parliament; we actually owe that to Canadians. I think it's poor judgment to switch the order around like that.