I'm not opposed to the motion, at first sight, since we suspect that the bill will pass second reading, based on the opinions expressed by all the political parties, who support the principle. A preliminary study would therefore not be in vain, because there's nothing hypothetical about it. It's pretty obvious that the bill will end up here.
However, I want to make sure that we don't add sessions when the bill passes second reading, and that we don't start the study all over again. In other words, the preliminary study has to count. We also have other subjects to discuss. Four sessions are more than enough to study an agreement that is short and simple, not very binding and limited in scope, on the face of it.
Can we agree that, when the bill comes back to us, we'll just do the clause-by-clause study and not add sessions until the end of time?
Besides, the bill cannot be amended, so we know that the text we have before us, as it is likely to be adopted, will remain identical. So there can't be any nasty surprises about what we're about to study.