I hear you when it comes to working with the provinces on this and other issues, although I don't know if unanimity is necessarily a requirement in a matter such as this, which merely lifts from the Criminal Code the prohibition against betting on individual sports.
Given the legislative process of the committee's study of this bill, I don't think we're going to be coming back to the government recommending yea or nay on this. I guess it could be yea or nay, but my understanding is that this is an acceptable proposal. And if it's a matter of delaying the actual implementation of the bill until the provinces agree, or there's a modicum of agreement with the provinces on this, surely that can be done at a later stage.
I'm just wondering why the delay here in this committee of this. Obviously the organized crime thing—we're not opposed to completing that study, but it's not an either/or thing. Initially the idea was that this might take an hour in this committee and then be passed back to the House at report stage, so I don't think that rationale for not dealing with it holds up. I'd like to see it dealt with before we rise at Christmas.