Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I will disagree with my colleague, Mr. Housefather.
All of the questions I've asked this evening have been directly on point. In fact, all of the questions I've asked at this committee have been directly on point, and I would stand by that. We can go through the transcript together and look at that.
I'm trying to understand a complicated bill that has sweeping repercussions for Canadians, for our security interests and for our privacy interests. There's no magic formula for how many clauses should or shouldn't get passed in a set amount of time. It's contextual. It depends on the complexity of the clause, the complexity of the bill and how a clause interacts with other clauses. I don't think it's a fair assessment to draw a blanket generalization about how many clauses should or shouldn't be done.
It sounded to me like the programming motion was being used as a cudgel or as blackmail, that if the government sees that this is moving to its liking—