I'd like to hear from the department, but before that, I do want to say that this is not normal. There is no normalcy. I know we didn't do this with Bill C-30; we didn't do it with Bill C-38. I know that in other jurisdictions across Canada they wait and leave the definition and the name of the act until the last. I understand that to be the case in Manitoba and in many other jurisdictions.
Quite frankly, what Mr. Fast said is correct. We did go through the bill extensively, and we found very few problems with the amendments, to be blunt. We think we can go through this with cooperation and find some results. We're not asking for pie in the sky; we're simply asking for one particular clause to be put to the end until the rest of the clauses are dealt with.
Could we hear from the department and the legal counsel on the ramifications of dealing with it at this stage, and whether or not it would be advantageous to put it to the end?