Thank you. I'm going back to my motion.
It underlines and reinforces how we as parliamentarians can walk and chew gum at the same time. There was every single ability for us to conduct ourselves in a fashion to move quickly last Wednesday and today. We're talking about only a handful of amendments. We could have expeditiously moved with Todd Doherty's presentation. We probably wouldn't even need one full hour. We probably could have gotten by with one round and then moved to clause-by-clause.
I appreciate Ms. Begum's intervention highlighting not only the importance of Todd Doherty's bill but certainly the importance of Ms. Lapointe's bill.
The fact of the matter is that, without any agreement, without any understanding and without a telegraph of a willingness by the government to accommodate Bill S-233, they would rather punt that particular bill into the fall session. We'll have to deal with this in the fall session. This was moved very quickly, as I said at the outset, at the Senate in the fall. It was moved very quickly and unanimously at second reading in the House. There is absolutely no rational explanation offered by the government why this—