Thank you, Mr. Chair.
We don't have an agenda for this time here, but here we are in public. Therefore, when we came out of in camera to go into public.... Based on that, most of what I've been talking about is ministers coming to committee.
The other thing that we should really consider at this committee as well is when we do have ministers coming here, when we do have stakeholders coming here, it's really important for us to be able to question and ask them.
One thing with this committee that is a challenge from a time perspective is that we do have a fair amount of legislation that comes through this committee. That really does sometimes delay our ability to do a number of different studies. Legislation is important. Of course, government legislation is first, and then private members' bills as well. There always seem to be a number of private members' bills that do come through this committee, specifically around EI. It seems to be a topic from all parties where there are different private members' bills that come through. I know my colleague here, Rosemarie Falk, had a great private member's bill that had to do with.... It was so good that, in fact, the Liberal government took the idea of the private member's bill and put it in their omnibus bill, I believe, in the fall economic statement.
I'm glad to hear from members opposite that she did a good job in it. I do agree.
Just to refresh our memory, that had to do with people who were adopting or who were intended parents. That was a great piece of legislation to have parity for the amount of time that those people would go on EI, as opposed to people who had birthed a child. I was really proud to actually second that piece of legislation and to speak to it. Also, as a person who is adopted myself, it actually meant a lot to me. Thank you very much.
It's really great that our members can put forth that type of legislation. I was really happy to see that that did go through all the stages, although it then got stuck, because the government did not give it royal assent, unfortunately. Then they put it in with their own legislation. I guess they wanted to have credit for it.
You're the one who deserves the credit, Mrs. Falk, absolutely.