First, I support Mr. Housefather. I want to make that abundantly clear. It's very odd that you have any member of the Liberal Party championing property rights, so this is an exception to that general rule.
I want to make a general comment. This is something that I looked at. When I got this bundle of amendments on Friday and I totalled the number of amendments brought by each party, I was shocked that the number of Liberal amendments was literally double the number of opposition amendments. It really speaks to how rushed, in my view, Bill C-16 was if the government has to amend a bill they have been championing for literally the last year.
This is an example of the failures by the justice minister, who took his marching orders from Prime Minister Carney to deliver substantive reforms on justice issues. Clearly, after hearing from a number of witnesses who should have been consulted, in my view, long before—