I think the “without delay” part is obvious, so I'm going to focus on the “as drafted” part.
I want to go back to the rarity of a royal recommendation. It is so rare that I had to go through the different offices, the House leadership and the like to talk to experts about exactly how royal recommendations happen in the first place. We're talking about them happening three times in 31 years. I was wondering whether it's on a piece of paper. Does somebody sign it? Which minister does that? Is it a prime minister? What's the balance of that? It was a real process to track that down, and something I'm still tracking down. It literally changed over various months.
I thought I had a clear path. It was off the table, and then it was back on. The fact that we got this item in the budget is key. Already having an assigned budget made this possible. I can only tell this committee about my experience dealing with multiple ministers and the Prime Minister's Office. I asked everywhere I could—including my own caucus and members opposite—for help in trying to navigate this. I found a path, and I worry about anything that will take us off that path.
As I said in my previous answer, I have no explanation. I don't think any member of Parliament could come up with a reason this has taken us 10 years to figure out and get to the point where we can actually pass it. We are literally weeks away from solving this problem, and I don't want to derail it.