I hesitate to accept this motion because the work we did last time we dealt with the bill was very disappointing. The clerk told me that no amendments to Bill C-280 had been tabled and that no motion had been introduced last Tuesday for us to hear new witnesses on this bill. From what I could understand, the meeting was interrupted and the witnesses who were to appear at that meeting were not summoned to a subsequent meeting. So I don't see the need to adopt this amendment, in view of the fact that no amendment has been introduced. In my view, it should be possible to do the clause-by-clause consideration in five minutes, since no amendments have been tabled.
On April 19th, 2007. See this statement in context.