Thank you, Madam Chair.
As I say, it is a bit of a fine art in terms of some of these negotiations that take place, but I could imagine House leaders coming together or maybe even the respective caucus leadership staff coming together and saying here are all of the bills and here's all of the legislation that we have before us. They have a responsibility on the government side to meet with the ministers, on the opposition side they'll meet with the critics, and they kind of get a sense in terms of the real value of what is an important bill, what type of bill should be getting what kind of debate inside the chamber or inside the House of Commons, versus how much time we want to allocate out for committee stage. It really varies.
Mr. Shory's bill is no different than that. If there was a great deal of good faith in terms of negotiations that were taking place, I suspect that we probably wouldn't be here right now, that there would have been an agreement that would have dealt with Mr. Shory's private member's bill.