I'm not going to take up too much time, but I do feel it's important to point out a couple of things. One is that the government did submit last night to all members of the committee three specific amendments. While they weren't brought up in the previous panel and I understand why—the panellists didn't have a copy of the amendments—they do indeed address the issues that have been raised by the committee. They are not necessarily being agreed to by the opposition, but they do address the specific issues related to statelessness. All three of them were also given to Ms. Dauvergne just so that she had them. I think her comments were specific to this issue and she commented a number of times about the minister's commitment to amendments. Those have been submitted ahead of time and I know the clerk has indicated they're not official until the close of time, in terms of when they are to be submitted prior to clause-by-clause consideration, but they are here at the request of the opposition and also obviously to alleviate some of the concerns that have been raised.
The second point, and I'll be very quick, Mr. Chair, is that we have this ongoing issue with witnesses who do tend to go on a little bit longer than needed in terms of responding to a question. We as individuals, as members of Parliament, only have five or seven minutes to be able to ask questions. It would be helpful from time to time if you could remind the witnesses that we only have a very short period of time. It does cause us to interrupt the witness when they tend to go on a little bit because we want to get our questions on the table.
I would seek your indulgence to remind folks of the need to be short and to the point, because we do not have a lot of time to ask questions.