Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you, Minister Lametti, for being here. It is always very special to have a minister come before committee. We appreciate your taking the time to do so and to answer our questions.
I also am very concerned about where Bill C-7 is going, and very concerned that we are now dealing with debate closure on amendments from an appointed Senate. Although you have just said it is doing its job as a place of sober second thought, to me these are not sober second thought tweaks. They are substantive amendments in an area that you have said is concerning and is worthy of and needing study, which it would appear we're not going to have an opportunity to do before passing it into legislation; we're going to be dealing with the study and the concerns after the fact.
When we had it before our committee, of course, we didn't have this version. This effectively makes it a very new bill. As parliamentarians—which, as you have pointed out, we all are—we have responsibilities, and it's particularly concerning from a public policy creation point of view that we would end up creating public policy without careful consideration.
Particularly as we're talking today about funding and estimates, my question to you is, with this change that may go through, what new funding allocations are you envisioning or have already been provided to support such expansion?
We're terminating debate today. You're bringing on a closure motion, so we're not going to have a lot of time to even talk about this.
Here in committee, how do you anticipate, either from a funding or from a general point of view, supporting such an expansion?