Madam Chair, on that, I would then suggest that, going forward, we don't submit or agree to a deadline.
Around this table, there are four parties represented, and we agree to a deadline to submit amendments. I wouldn't even mention this, except that it happened on the last private member's bill, on coercive control. We ended up with the government table-dropping an expansive amendment to that bill that was essentially a rewrite of the bill. This is the second consecutive time it has happened.
I guess I would ask now.... I'm not going to speak, of course, for the NDP or the Bloc, but for our part, we don't have the resources of a full department and a minister's office and all those things, yet we somehow get our amendments in on time. The government, which has full resources, including hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of employees, should be able to get its amendments in at least as quickly as we do.
I don't want to belabour it, but I think I had to make the point, because this is the second time that the government has failed to introduce its amendment by the time agreed to by committee members.