I can appreciate that the parliamentary secretary would like to rush this motion forward, but the fact that you, as chairman, ruled that the amendments by the Liberal Party and indeed the amendments by the NDP, save for two minor exceptions, were in order is clear evidence for everybody who is listening or following the debate of this committee that the bill can be improved, as is normally done by committees when there are items of legislation before them. The fact that committees would propose amendments does not necessarily mean the legislation is wrong. It simply means that part of the parliamentary debate process and the decision-making process receives the fine tuning that committees were structured to provide. So I reject completely out of hand the observation that the bill is so flawed that it requires amendments.
The reason that amendments were proposed was to address some of the concerns by the same carriers who said the bill is so flawed they didn't want to have anything to do with it. Our amendments, and I don't want to judge the NDP's amendments, go to the issue of who is responsible under law, the law that the carriers themselves observe when they fly into Europe. Our amendments go into trying to give a reasonable understanding of how the penalties will be addressed, even though in Europe there is no such exception.