My thoughts on this are from the perspective of what our role is as parliamentarians. We are legislators, first and foremost. Actually, this work that we're doing right now is primarily the reason we got elected in the first place. The second reason, not any less important than this one, is to watch over the expenditures of the taxes that are collected from Canadians. While I can understand there might be some hesitation, and it doesn't look like the government members of the committee are going to be in favour of this amendment, if it's possible, could we get some consensus on this? If we were to add a sunsetting clause to it, we would know after the first couple of years what the actual cost might be of these changes. I think that's responsible governance and I think it's our responsibility as parliamentarians, first and foremost.
I'd be happy to move an amendment to it if I had any indication from my colleagues across the way for a sunset clause. We'll do this for the first three to five years and see what it costs, and then have it sunset automatically in the legislation.
I'm not seeing a lot of interest.