Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Minister, thank you for being here today and thank you for introducing this legislation. I can tell you that I've been getting an incredible number of e-mails and telephone calls from my constituency, from victims, victims groups, and the general public telling me how important they think this legislation is. As a member of Parliament, I think there's nothing more important that we can do than to protect children. So I want to thank you for bringing this forward.
I was amused and rather pleasantly surprised to hear my opposition colleague Mr. Murphy talk about the timing and his concern about moving quickly with legislation. You know, as we review all the criminal legislation that our government's been putting forward, he and his opposition coalition colleagues are consistently slowing things down. They like to debate the short titles of bills. They want them to be very precise, and they're willing to spend hours debating the short titles of bills. They like to move commas back and forth, from paragraph to paragraph, and spend a lot of time doing that.