Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's always good to have some levity at the table. That's a good reminder for me as well.
I'll begin my thought again. It sounded to me like Mr. Housefather was suggesting—and he can go on and clarify in his own words—that if the government is seeing progress, whatever that may be, to its liking, programming would not be necessary.
That seems to me like blackmail rather than civilly and substantially engaging in the content of this bill and giving it the appropriate time and consideration it requires. It is certainly not the fault of the opposition that this government waited 10 or 11 years to bring forward lawful access legislation and then, in the last week of Parliament, decided to try to ram it through the House.
I will respectfully disagree that the programming motion is a necessity on the part of the government. It is not. The government has had sufficient time to do this. I'm going to ask the questions I need to ask so that I, as a voting member, am comfortable with whichever way I decide to vote on this bill.