I'll be brief, to allow my colleagues to intervene.
It's unfortunate. For people who didn't know, it was a courtesy provided to the government to take a break and figure out where they're at. In that, I'm still trying to find a process here where we can find some consensus and move on. I might take the floor again later on.
I'm trying to figure out how we get past this. For the government members to say this is like stonewalling, I'd be interested to break down how many times in this committee we've had to break and take a pause, a time out, for the Liberals to get their act together and come back. We're probably into a couple of hours at least in that.
It's difficult to see how we can go forward without having some resolution to this. The government says the amendments are coming, but we don't have specifics in terms of a guarantee or anything like that. If I had a dollar for every time I was told that, I'd be a very wealthy man. I'd like to find a way for us to get past this point. If not, I fear it's going to go back to the House at some point.
I'll just leave it there for now, and I hope we can find a way through this. The legislation should have been separated anyway. Why we're not dealing with this for this one section alone, I have no idea.