This is absolutely incredible. I thought I'd seen it all, but I haven't. I've seen a government that is hell-bent on driving the softwood industry right over the cliff, without any attention to any of the details. There's the poor drafting of Bill C-24, and there is the shutting off of television cameras so the public can't be aware of what this government is doing, with the assistance of two opposition parties. That's something I can certainly understand, because if the public knew what this government was doing, there'd be an even greater cost, in British Columbia particularly.
What we have is a bad bill that is being made worse by the lack of attention to detail by members of this committee, who are ramming through amendments that make it even worse than it was before.
For Bill C-24, clause 24, amendment NDP-17, which I move, we add that “registered mail” should be added to the cancellation and effective dates so they're not simply set by fiat of the minister; they are set by registered mail.