Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My apologies to Mr. Vis. It was me who created the commotion. I was excited to be back at industry here, and I have a loud voice, as people know, and I appreciate my colleague.
I want to say, Mr. McEvoy, that your privacy laws in the past as well as civil liberties coming out of British Columbia have been very solid over the years. I'm just wondering at this point in time, would you have a recommendation on whether we only do part of the bill right now, the privacy component, and then work on the AI stuff later on?
There are a lot of witnesses who have come here saying that we should scrap the whole process, and some are saying that we should just get on with it. We're getting a lot of mixed messages, so I'm wondering this.
I made a motion with the NDP that split the bill into two segments of voting in the House of Commons. I understand why the minister put them together. There is logic for that, but at the same time, there's a good case for the bill to be a bit different.
If we were to walk away with this, with just the privacy component, do you have any comments on whether that is important enough to meet the test of mettle to do that and get that done right away, or should we still continue to bundle up and maybe not get to the privacy stuff, because we may not be able to get the whole bill done?