Yes, I will be, but I think it's important to set the stage for why we are moving what we're moving.
The motion that I will be tabling resets the committee priorities. It ensures that we are, first and foremost, giving the study of bail the priority that it deserves. This is also inclusive of our desire to prioritize the study of Bill C-14.
My Liberal colleagues have said that they are very keen to see Bill C-14 passed. I suspect that clause-by-clause on Bill C-9 is going to take a very long period of time, simply because we have been so shortchanged on hearing witness testimony. We don't have the adequate information we need. We will be prioritizing the study of Bill C-14. There is a Bloc Québécois study on judicial appointments that the committee has also agreed to proceed with. I think this is a very important one as well. We believe there needs to be concurrence on this.
I go back to the very beginning of Bill C-9, when we were graced with the presence of the Minister of Justice, Sean Fraser, and department officials. I asked a very simple question, which was, when did work on Bill C-9 by the department begin relative to work on Bill C-14? As in, when did the government decide to begin its work on changing the definition of hate versus cracking down on serious repeat violent offenders? There was no clear answer.
The government chose to put Bill C-9 forward. The government chose to make criminalizing what people say the priority. This is incredibly concerning. The Minister of Justice confirmed in his testimony before this committee that it will affect what people say online. The lower threshold of what constitutes hate means that we will see U.K.-style social media policing in Canada.
I'm also very aware of the fact that, as this committee has undergone its work on Bill C-9—work that was shortchanged by the Liberal members' desire not to take a strong position against sexual deviance and perverts, inexplicably—we heard a line of questioning from our colleague from the Bloc Québécois that seemed to be indicating support for removing the religious defence that is right now in section 319 of the Criminal Code. Also—