If I could get down on my knees—something I've never done in my life—I would now. If there is one amendment that is important, it is this one. If we truly want to be able to study what we are implementing, we need to adopt it. All the victims groups that we met with, including groups of legal experts and others, have told us that this is a good first step, but that something else will have to be done.
Representatives from two provinces appeared to tell us that this will have a huge impact on the administration of justice. I am convinced that if we had spoken to representatives from the other eight provinces, they would have said the same thing.
This is a reasonable amendment that would add this clause 30, which will go like this:
The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada must prepare and cause to be laid before each House of Parliament an annual report for the previous year on the operation of this Act that contains the following information: (a) the number of restitution orders made under section 16; (b) the number of requests for information made under sections 7 and 8; and (c) the number of complaints filed under sections 25 and 26.
The purpose of this amendment is not so that Canada's Parliament can retain control, but rather it is to see how the bill is applied concretely on the ground. This bill still has some practical aspects. It would be reasonable to proceed in this way.