Thank you, Madam Chair.
I will be quick because I, too, would like to see us move forward with this.
I believe that hearing more from more people would probably be better. Just to go back quickly.... The decision was made that we would send this to the committee to look at. If we had wanted to pass it quickly.... Everyone plays these games with unanimous consent motions in the House. That would have been an option to see if that actually was something that people could have agreed upon, but we agreed upon something different, and that was to come here.
I know what it is like to have a private member's bill that doesn't make it across the wire. I have had one moving into second reading in the Senate when an election was called. I did get another chance to pass one. Anyway, I don't think it's the right precedent because if we start to do that, to say “Once we get it in here, let's try to push it through as quickly as possible,” that isn't fair to other private members' bills that are working their way through the system.
As much as I would love to get the discussion in here, to shut it down now wouldn't be right, so I agree that we should have more meetings rather than fewer.