Just a word on Mr. Lake's comments about too much time. I'll remind him that we're in our second meeting on this bill. We've only had one meeting on it, so we haven't put a lot of time into it. It's a private member's bill. I don't think it's fair to suggest that we've wasted time on it.
I'm not sure whether Mr. Lessard fully understood what I was getting at; it could be because of my cumbersomeness with regulations around Parliament. What I was suggesting is, can we deal with everything else about this bill in clause-by-clause consideration and then suspend the meeting and come back next week to look at the amendments that we may be able to work out to satisfy the Bloc? That is what I was suggesting. If we were able to do that, it shouldn't take very long at the next meeting to go through it.
That's what I was wondering: first, whether it's possible, and second, whether it works. Or does the Bloc feel they have to amend a whole series of parts of the bill in order to make it satisfactory?