The last argument I'll address, after a dramatic pause, Mr. Chair, is that of time constraints. We've heard this before.
I am aware, despite the length of this speech, that we are under time constraints and that those are mandated by the Supreme Court. I don't think that's a reason to make bad law. I think these exclusions will not deliver on what RCMP members were hoping to get. If we pass this amendment today, I'm sure we can pass the rest of the bill expeditiously and we will meet that timeline. I do not believe that these time constraints mitigate in favour of keeping these exclusions. In fact, if anything, they mitigate in favour of getting rid of them because we are in a hurried process.
Here I would say less is more with respect to hurried legislation. I think there is a whole history of collective bargaining and decisions and precedents that we can rely on to protect RCMP management from unreasonable proposals that could come forward from a union, if it forms, and that we should not try to task ourselves, particularly under time constraints, to try to foresee every event that may happen at the bargaining table.
The point of the process is to have a process that happens in the workplace and for those people who are in the workplace to be able to address those concerns that come up. As non-RCMP members, we don't have to try to foresee everything that's going to come up at the bargaining table. We can empower members to do that themselves.
In this case, with respect to exclusions, especially because of our time limit, less is more.