I didn't mean to cut off my colleague, but I'm wondering, Mr. Chair, whether some of what he's just been saying might have found a purchase on the other side and whether there's any interest at all. If so, could you advise me how we could do this with some form of unanimous consent, to report back to the House that in fact this committee should be looking at this bill as the first reading committee and ask whether that's possible?
I know from page 984 of Bosc and O'Brien that the power of the committee to report is generally interpreted as being as often as we wish, and all that has to happen is that the committee has to agree and ask the chair to report back.
I'd like to have some direction, if I could, Mr. Chair, on whether or not you would be at all open to some form of procedure that would take seriously what my colleague, Mr. Christopherson, has been saying about why this bill would benefit from having its scope opened, and therefore from our sitting in a first reading as opposed to a second reading mode.