Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank my Bloc colleague for raising this incredibly important issue.
I know, as a representative of Canada's labour party, that this has been an outstanding issue for Canadians, for workers across the country and for our solidarity with workers of goods no matter where they are.
The provisions related to workers' rights are important for Canadians. They're important for workers across the country. Canada needs to take a serious role in achieving the means that this committee was unanimous toward. There's a timeline associated with the motion that was made in this committee to ensure that these workers had a piece of legislation that Canada could ensure we read, review and get done, so we can get to the point of better advancing the protection of rights for workers.
I totally understand my colleague Mr. Sidhu's situation related to the issues related to the House of Commons. The debate there is problematic for Canadians. It is slowing down the work of Parliament. I'd suggest to my honourable colleague from the Conservative bench that all three things can be true in this case.
First, the requirement for workers to have protections under legislation no matter where goods are produced is critical. It's important, and it's a matter of solidarity of workers across the world.
The second fact is that in the House of Commons right now, we have a very serious deadlock or gridlock related to the production of SDTC documents. To Mr. Jeneroux's point, I think the government could make a position more relevant to whether those documents would be tabled to end that.
The last fact is also still true, which is that it's an outstanding promise that's now owed to Canadians. This was something that could have been done before the privilege motion on SDTC, for example. It begs the question as to what the delay is.