I’m talking about you, Mr. Chair.
I seem you have heard “Mr. Godin, it’s your amendment,” but maybe that was my own interpretation.
I just wanted to share it with my colleagues, Mr. Chair. I didn’t want to cast any aspersions on you. I have too much respect for you to do so. You know that I appreciate you as a person. As a member of the party in power, that’s another story.
Coming back to what I was saying, when my amendment was tabled at the beginning of November, it was relevant. The party in power, through Mr. Serré’s suggestion, recognized the importance of having the Minister of Canadian Heritage testify, because he is involved. We, the Bloc Québécois and the Conservative Party of Canada, won that. I’m just clarifying the situation for everyone.
My amendment proposed November 24 as a date, and now it is November 17. It seems to me that my amendment was relevant on November 1, but we’re not going to start hearing from ministers today, obviously, as we have already started this two-hour meeting. We know that ministers are very busy, and they are not always available. Managing all that means that it is almost impossible to implement the first point of my amendment, which I moved on November 1.
I thought it was important to clarify that. I’d like to hear my colleagues’ opinion on it, those from the party in power and those from the NDP, the Bloc Québécois and the Conservative Party.
I repeat that we must take the time to do things right. I don’t understand why we’re putting on so much pressure to rush the study of this bill.
I’ll stop there for the moment and invite my colleagues to take the floor. I’ll come back to this before we move to a vote if there are no other comments.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.