I made a point on this at the beginning of committee, Mr. Chairman, but just to add to and to support what my NDP colleagues have said, in my view we are not giving time at this committee or others to properly vet legislation.
This is an important piece of legislation. We have, I think, the time to take more time. With the stacking of witnesses at committee in a fairly tight timeframe, we really don't get the time to question witnesses. We bring these people in. These people are experts in their field. I think all parties pretty well agreed on the witness list that we had here. We didn't hear from the Privacy Commissioner and we should have.
I really believe that what we're seeing here is an erosion of our parliamentary system. That worries me. That's not a partisan comment. I think we all should be concerned about that. It undermines, I believe, the safeguards in our democracy to vet legislation, to hear witnesses, and to use their expert testimony to improve legislation for the benefit of all Canadians. I think we're seeing that undermined.