If Mr. Ramsay wants to come back in the summer, I will be here as much as he would like. If you're here, I'm here. We'll do it together.
The chair's comments allude to the fact that we do have a process problem. It's not the chair's fault in any way. We've been given very limited time to deal with Bill C-22. The government has been unwilling to provide sufficient time for all of the stakeholders who wanted to be here, but could not be. In fact, it has been unwilling to even allow the Privacy Commissioner to attend, even though we have repeatedly asked for the Privacy Commissioner to be here to speak to the very amendment that our Bloc colleague has put forward. It comes directly from comments submitted by the Privacy Commissioner to this committee outlining the Privacy Commissioner's concerns with several of the clauses in part 1.
We have been blocked from doing that without any cogent reason, I would add. There has been some suggestion that the Privacy Commissioner is not an official, so that's not normal practice. I would disagree with that. We have two entities here that are not departmental officials. They are the RCMP and CSIS, who I—