I don't mean to belabour this, and I'm not trying to throw any shade at the clerk. I don't know how you would translate that, but I'm certainly not attempting to do that. We should know when we are going to have that information. We're about to embark on the first amendment. I don't want to hear a stakeholder say, “I have a point to make on the amendment, and I submitted a brief last Friday. That brief wasn't available, and now you are on the second NDP amendment.”
This is pretty serious. This is the federal legislature and we are dealing with a very contentious bill, with multiple motions on notice. I don't think it's unreasonable for us to know what information remains outstanding before we undertake scrutinizing and potentially changing this bill. A stakeholder may have proposed alternative wording, but we don't even know if they did so. If they did that yesterday, it's not a problem. I get that. If they did that last week or even Monday, however, I think we need to know whether it's outstanding. That's my position.
Mr. Chair, I can't tell you how to do your job. I can only give an exhortation. My exhortation is that we have the most fulsome information possible, and that information becomes possible with more information. I'll leave it at that.