Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the comments of the parliamentary secretary, but there are other studies, like the Polaris study, that show that consumers are concerned about this. As well, consumer groups have been very critical of the minister's actions.
I think what we have to do is put in the context as part of this. We started this committee with a focus on studying the manufacturing sector and a series of different things that we wanted to bring forward in that particular context. That was our focus and priority. Secondly, we did respond to what we felt was a need at that time to at least do a little bit of a review. Hence, we had an actual motion come from this committee to submit to the minister, which he has ignored.
At the same time, he's decided to pick and choose from the actual study itself what he thinks he should act on. He hasn't acted, for example, on the ombudsperson position. He hasn't acted on a series of other things that consumers have asked to be part of the actual recipe. Also, some of the issues we have are going to affect not just consumers but also businesses.
I think it's important also to recognize here that with all due respect to the minister, we don't have a single piece of legislation, aside from that small document on payday loans, which everybody supported for a long period of time, to present to this committee. Not a single piece of legislation in a year.
We have the time to fix this if we have concerns. I believe it's the right thing to do. The minister has not tabled any new legislation of any significance that we have to deal with, and we can actually work on this right away. I think it's important, especially given the context that we did have a motion go forward and there's been quite a number of sensational issues around the whole industry itself.
I think Mr. Crête's motion is in order and I would support it. I move that we vote on that and go forward on this as soon as possible. The sooner we do that, the better we go.