Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's a bit of an embarrassment to any Canadian to know that we have sixty seconds to devote to each of these clauses. What an absolutely farcical situation.
It would make a good play or movie, I'm sure, Mr. Chair.
This is so egregiously bad, I cannot believe the Liberals would agree to these appallingly bad rules of order.
We're now on clause 33, amendment NDP-22, which I so move.
In this particular case, when we look at clause 33, we again have specific and strict requirements that the minister himself or herself sets. The minister sets a reasonable time. It's not defined in the act. It doesn't appear anywhere.
The minister, given the rest of this act, would probably think sixty seconds would be a good period of time to impose this particular demand, because sixty seconds is clearly what the government believes—