Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I move amendment NDP-36.
In the current legislation, a person who has been assessed and objects to the assessment has only 90 days after the date of the notice of motion of assessment to file a notice of objection with the minister.
Now, certainly that's more than the 60 seconds that the government is giving for debate on clause-by-clause here, or the few scant seconds that they're providing in terms of due diligence, but 90 days is not enough time to necessarily appeal assessments. For some of these softwood companies, they already have an onerous administrative burden.
In this amendment, what we are suggesting is that it be 150 days, a longer period of time for these companies, so that they actually have the capacity to appeal the assessment in the midst of all of the other administrative charges that are brought onto them by Bill C-24.
A hundred and fifty days is a reasonable period, and a hundred and fifty days should be—