Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I will echo what a lot of my colleagues are saying here.
I cannot support, in any way, anything that would jeopardize the timeline we have for Bill C-61. This is critically important. Indigenous communities have been waiting long enough for this. I think we owe it to them to make this our first priority and to focus on this piece.
If the concern here is about the indigenous procurement piece, we're studying that at OGGO this afternoon. You're more than welcome to join us there and ask some questions. I'm happy, also, to facilitate any further questions or [Technical difficulty—Editor] with ministers. Of course, we want to get the answers to questions for colleagues. That's critically important as well.
I think we're close on this. However, for me, any iota of an inclination to possibly use this to delay Bill C-61.... I cannot, under any terms, support that. It's very critical that we're very clear with this. I understand what Mr. Shields is trying to say. However, to me, it still looks like there's that two-week time frame. Again, because of the tight turnaround for Bill C-61's clause-by-clause, I have to see that language tightened up in order to have that assurance.
I think the colleague going after me might be putting forward a subamendment, if I'm not mistaken. It would be to have that clarification piece around the timeline for finishing Bill C-61 first.
Thank you.