I should have given the reason I will be putting forward the motion to table the bill. It's because if we want to, as a committee, do our due diligence and consider potential amendments to this bill, I am told by the people I talk to that since it's a private member's bill, it's likely to be out of the scope of the bill, so we aren't able to do that. Plus, we don't know for sure what kind of amendment it should be to accommodate these people. They raised some legitimate points that we need to consider. Plus, from a government point of view, if we're going to expand the nature of the private member's bill, it has to go through the proper channels and processes to get that consent, whether it be cabinet or otherwise.
I'm saying that at this stage we are not doing our job if we simply proceed with what we have before us without considering what the witnesses have said. They raised some legitimate issues, so I move that we table this bill until those issues can be sorted out or ironed out to the satisfaction of all the parties who are prepared to support the bill, me included.
Now that I've moved a motion, am I allowed to speak to it?