Thank you. I understand that process.
When I say that this is an omnibus bill, it's because I think that different types of transportation could have been split up, and we could have started working on the charter much sooner, with the process you are proposing. As things stand, it will not be done before 2018, if everything goes well.
However, we are not reinventing the wheel. Similar charters exist elsewhere. The European charter, among others, is a very effective model. It was used as the basis for an NDP bill, which you endorsed.
Does that mean we won't be able to make any amendments to Bill C-49 that would provide specific guidelines and could at least inform the thinking of the consultation that will begin after the royal assent?