Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I talked to most of you last week. My understanding is that this committee is now getting the report. We don't have the full contents of the subcommittee report; the minority pages haven't been given to us. I just got them at my office last night, but we're still lacking part of them.
The House order, as I currently understand it, says we're supposed to have the full committee report back to the House by Wednesday of next week, which would give us one day to review a report that I haven't even received yet in full. Even though I will probably spend most of this weekend working on it, not everybody on the full committee, including me as critic, was a part of the deliberations of the subcommittee. And although I've read the Hansard, I think it will take some time to go through the work people have done. I would like to do it as fast as possible, but we have a break week the following week. What I've done will give us until the Tuesday, or three meetings after the break week, to get it back. Hopefully we can easily do so in that time. It might even be possible to do it before then; I just don't know at this stage.
Garry, I just wanted to put some things on the record. We're going to have a Supreme Court decision coming down tomorrow that could potentially impact whatever is in this report. It may or may not; we don't know. We may or may not decide that our report will take that decision into account. I don't know at this stage of the game, and neither does anybody else.
I just think people have spent time on this and we should do it properly. Even though all the critics and the parliamentary secretary have said they're amenable to this, they may have changed their minds; I don't know. I want to stress that the full committee's report deserves some attention and should not be done in a way that we don't understand what we're doing here.
Also, Garry, I know that the House order has to be done, so if we pass this motion and the House leaders don't give us the extension, we'll still be working on Tuesday.