I accept the ruling of the clerk here.
I have just a couple of comments in response to the comments put on the table by Mr. Savage. Yes, we agreed on a timetable here. I thought it was tight, but we had a week. We could have had other meetings. We chose not to. I know that my colleague Mr. Godin suggested that we have a meeting on Wednesday to work our way through some of the difficulties that present re this bill.
As well, there are difficulties. Right from the beginning there were no suggestions by anyone that this was as sound as it could be and that it couldn't be improved. We agreed on the principle. We wanted to move forward. We thought that the self-employed workers out there deserved at least the small amount of coverage they get with regard to this--