Yes, I want to ask a question, but I also don't want to cede the floor to ask the question. That's what I'm concerned about.
I don't understand at all how this is a solution. I know that Mr. Ramsay said, “Oh, I have a solution: Let's adjourn debate on your motion and let me introduce this beautiful motion, which is the solution to all of our concerns.”
The solution seems to be to leave in place the same scenario, where amendments are due before we have heard from department officials again, and to add an extra two hours for witnesses. Quite frankly, we had 18 witnesses here today. I know that Mr. Caputo said we had 12. We had 18 witnesses here today: 18 people and maybe 12 or 13 organizations. We didn't get to ask them questions.
My concern with this is that we had no time. We don't have any time. This government is just frankly abusing its power, in my opinion, by ramming through legislation without giving the opposition a chance to properly question witnesses so that we can pass a bill that is done right. We want a bill that is done right. We want it.
I'm a little bit blown away. In fact, I'm a lot blown away that we don't want to do our jobs, that we want to limit the amount of time that we're studying this bill and that we just want to go, go, go, to the detriment of Canadians and their privacy and their rights. Quite frankly, I'm baffled that everyone at this table is okay with that. I really am. I don't really understand it at all.
When I first started hearing about this bill and looking at it—