Pursuant to the standing order of reference of Wednesday, September 30, 2009, we are studying Bill C-304, an act to ensure secure, adequate, accessible, and affordable housing for Canadians. We'll go to clause-by-clause consideration today.
I just want to state at the outset that we need to be a little bit patient here today. The bill, which has six clauses, somehow has 35 amendments. So we're going to actually have to take our time as we move through this and just be patient as we work with the legislative clerk to make sure that we follow through a sequential method here to make sure everything works. We'll try to do our best to explain the consequences, the actions of what is going on, and then we can just try to go through it clause by clause.
What I'm going to start off with right away is this. In clause 2, if the amendments are carried that are going to be suggested by the Liberals, that is going to affect what happens in clause 3. What I'm going to ask is that we stand down clause 2 first, we start with clause 3, and then we can come back to clause 2, if nothing gets amended or changed, and then we can go back to what we're doing. I can assure you that we're going to take every clause, clause by clause. We'll go through that.
I do need a majority from the group to be able to do that. If not, we will start on clause 2.
Mr. Lessard, I will turn the floor over to you, sir, and then we can go from there. Mr. Lessard, the floor is yours.