Certainly in order to give it a proper study, there probably is going to be a need for something far beyond what we have available to us here in the next couple of weeks. Although I'm comfortable with the idea of doing something like that on a Monday with the minister, I would argue that with a bill of this size the minister should certainly be available for more than one hour at the committee. If we're talking about having a meeting, she should accompany her officials and be available for the entirety of that meeting, because it is a very comprehensive piece of legislation. One hour would essentially allow, in one of the party's cases, seven minutes for them to ask the minister who is responsible for the bill, about a 350-page bill, which to me seems entirely unreasonable. Certainly that should be expanded; I'm comfortable with that.
I think to go beyond that, the idea that we're starting to talk about scheduling this here or that there, we haven't even made a determination as to what this study looks like, its length and size, the amount of time that we're going to give to this. The minister is an obvious one, but to start to go beyond that type of a witness, let's get a sense of what we're talking about here in terms of the scope and length of the study.
I have not heard anything put forward in terms of what we're talking about here other than some backroom chatter that's been out there that the government is really trying to force this through as quickly as they can, and that they want to just do a few meetings and get it over with and hope that no one complains. I can tell them that we are certainly not going to be onside with that, nor certainly are Canadians. I think we need to get a sense of that before we go any further on it.