—to show you that we did support in principle Mr. Shory's bill at that stage.
However, as with any piece of legislation—this is part of the legislative process—we get the bill introduced in the House. Then it gets sent to committee.
So this bill came to committee. We heard from a wide range of witnesses. I'm not going to start reading into the record all of the witness testimony that was presented to us, though there is a little bit of a penchant to do that, because that would be unique, especially much of it, and at this stage I'm not planning to do that.
For me, I want to get back to the idea here, that we're here to deal with a private member's business. That private member had the business go through the House, and it's now right here.
It went to committee. The committee actually came to a resolution: it said that what is before us is outside of the scope, so therefore a greater power than us has to make a decision on that.
So I cannot say, and I will not have it said, that we're trying to prevent private members' business from being duly discussed and debated, because we participated in that, with goodwill and at great length, as you know.
We had a number of witnesses. I can't remember exactly how many. There were witnesses from all sides.