Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for being here today with us.
I liked that you said in your opening remarks that we're going to have some constructive dialogue today, so let's have some right now and lay it all out on the table.
We're not going to talk about the technical side today. Today we're going to try to figure out where we are, how we got here and where we're going tomorrow.
Minister, you stood up in the House multiple times and stated that opposition parties that were concerned with your poorly planned amendments to Bill C-21 were spreading misinformation. However, on February 3, when you withdrew your amendments, your own government House leader stated that “there were gaps and problems in the amendments. That's why we've retracted them.”
Could you now please admit that the genuine concerns Canadians had about these amendments were not baseless misinformation?