Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
This is a bill—C-40—that people have waited many years for, and I personally have been working on it for many years. We're in a minority Parliament. Given the schedule of the committee and sittings, if we do not deal with this bill in committee, either at this sitting or the next, we risk putting this off well into the new year, and we risk losing the legislation, because we're in a minority Parliament.
That's my reason for wishing to proceed before the motion. It's not saying that there's anything unimportant about Mr. Moore's motion or that we should not deal with it. I'm not saying that at all, but I have a genuine worry, and if we defeat my motion and go to speakers, we will run out the time today. We will not get this today. We have other business of the committee already scheduled, such as the minister on estimates. We risk losing the opportunity to complete what is a very important bill.
That's my reason for the motion. I am just restating it. I believe that we can deal with it very quickly and be back on this motion very soon.