Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to reread into the record part of the minister's opening statement. It's actually very condescending: “I want to put on the table specifically what our government will propose to improve the bill.”
It's his own bill. He says, “These are the amendments that we are proposing to the bill and I would enjoy my colleagues to pay attention, in particular to that section of what I will be saying.” For a member of Parliament to be sitting here with a minister at the opening of one of perhaps the most important bills in this Parliament, it's very condescending for the minister to say, “Please pay attention, because I have something important to say. I'm going to amend the bill.” He then refuses to amend it.
In the effort to speed this up, I would like to propose a subamendment to this amendment by adding, at the end of the motion, where it says “within five business days”, an additional sentence. It is, “That the committee pause its study of Bill C-27 until the minister produces the amendments discussed and referred to in his opening remarks.”