Well, not having prepared your report, obviously we don't have the benefit of your report. I also don't think we should wait. I think it would have been a bad thing if we had delayed another year to get these changes made.
I will point out that the review that was required of this committee under the legislation was required a number of years ago. You were written to by my predecessor on November 13, 2007--that's almost two years ago--asking you to get on with the study so that it could be dealt with, so that we could bring forward changes. I know the parliamentary secretary, David MacKenzie, I believe a week later, spoke at this committee about the urgency of getting on with doing that study.
I make no apologies for not having waited for that process to bring into place amendments that are very, very important. You have an opportunity through this process, through the bill itself, through the clause-by-clause process, to give real life to real changes in a far more weighty way than simply doing a report and study.
We did have the benefit of it--