Thank you, Mr. Chair.
The motion that has been discussed and passed by the House of Commons had been tabled by you before the Cubana incident. Such an incident must never happen again. The people who had to go through this were Quebeckers. They had a horrific experience during long hours. I contacted directly the people from the airport authorities and they are not satisfied.
The problem with the motion that you tabled today, Mr. Masse, is that you are asking us to examine the legislation. In my view, it is too late to do that. The government must really deal with this issue. Mr. Jean told us that the department was prepared to table a bill. I believe that we are at that stage. If that is the case, I would be prepared to have the department appear before us to find out where we are going with this.
We just went through the same process in the issue of navigable waters. We just did a preliminary study before the tabling of a bill. If we proceed in the same way in this issue, we will miss next winter, it will be too late. By the time a bill is tabled, we will have missed another winter, which I find unacceptable. We must find a solution.
If you were prepared to amend your motion, I would be prepared to support it. We must really demand that the government table a bill. If we do a pre-study, before the bill is... The government knows where they are going. A motion as already been passed unanimously by the House of Commons. The government should be able to table something. I was not very satisfied with Mr. Jean's response. I don't know what the government wants to table.