Thank you, Mr. Chair.
We find ourselves with a number of amendments, which, to be very honest, in my opinion change the scope of the bill in a fairly major fashion.
When the NDP first presented this bill, they had certain intentions; in fact, there were certain expectations that ended up not being met. But through these amendments, the very limited scope of their bill has now been changed in a very, very major way.
As a result, it is the right thing for us to allow certain witnesses who appeared in front of us based on the previous bill to comment on what we're now talking about, which is a fairly major rewrite of the bill. In fairness, I think that is something we should be considering as a committee. It may require an extension to allow this to happen, because the bill is supposed to go back on December 2.
I put that to my fellow committee members: those who appeared spoke to the bill as it was previously, and there are some fairly major rewrites.