Thank you very much, Chair.
I find it interesting as well. As my colleague Mr. Shipley indicated, the resources tonight are difficult. We are sitting in the House until midnight and there are other committees that are sitting late as well. Again, I find it astounding that we would consider a motion for which we don't even know whether it's going to be possible to sit past our 6:30 time slot.
In any event, why is it necessary to be in the spot that we're in? Why did Mr. Julian feel it was necessary to put a motion forward?
I want to reiterate and correct his assertion that we're not halfway through. If you look at the amendments before us, there are 25 of them that add the words “firearm part” in the clauses coming forward. I don't see that taking 20 meetings.
Let's actually talk about the meetings. On January 31, there was no meeting and no good reason was given for why we didn't have a meeting. February 3 was the meeting where the amendments were withdrawn, so we know why we didn't have a meeting on January 31. On February 7, we did the Russia study, not Bill C-21—