Yes, thank you, Chair.
I understand that members of the opposition like to question the minister while he's here on issues that are unrelated to the bill. I would point out that you chaired a subcommittee meeting, a steering committee meeting, in which we laid out the process by which this bill was going to move forward, and we gave consideration to this and duly passed it. Included in that calendar of events is the opportunity leading up to clause-by-clause for any member of this committee to introduce amendments to the bill.
It has not been the practice in the four and a half years I've sat on this committee that individuals have in fact moved these amendments two to three to four weeks prior to that opportunity. We are actually talking about potential amendments to the bill. There is a time for those amendments to be introduced, and if any member of this committee, from the government side or from the opposition side, wishes to introduce amendments, they will. There will be an opportunity to debate those amendments.
So I'm not sure why we have a question to the minister related to a process that we have here at committee, when in fact he could use his time I think to ask the minister points related directly to the content of the bill and the presentation he made this morning, which makes evidence to a number of changes—