Thank you, Madam Chair.
This is my first attendance at this committee, although I have been an associate member of the committee since I was elected.
Since it was raised by the government member, Mrs. Lalonde, I would just say that we have not been having a great deal of discussion on this amendment or other amendments, in order to have speedy consideration of these things. As some of the government members will know, I had the honour of sitting on the finance committee for 27 hours recently and talking for 18 of them. We could start doing that here, if we wanted to, but I think the nature of collegiality.... I think the opposition members have been very generous in just introducing the amendment, as we have been, and not speaking in great detail, each one of us, to that amendment, which we could do.
If the government would like us to start doing that, they could keep questioning the validity of these things, and I'm sure we can find the time to speak more frequently to these amendments, all of us who have a right to speak here.