I want to go back to my original point at the beginning of the meeting, when I pointed out the farcical nature of what we're doing here.
Mr. Aubin has presented a common sense proposal to the Liberals. I asked them at the beginning if there was anything in here, with all these amendments, that they were interested in. I asked Mr. Fraser because he did a lot of the talking the last time we went through the bill; he was puzzled as to why I was asking him, but that was why, and here we are now, 40 minutes into our meeting.
It is common sense. There is nothing that's screwing up the essence of the bill. This is a common sense amendment to a bill, and here we are. You say we should work through the process, yet when we present something that makes sense, the Liberals, for some reason, say they can't do it. The department sat here and told us that almost every single one gets done within 36 hours. We're saying two days. We're saying, if you don't like two days, make it three days, or four days, or seven days, but you're putting in “feasible”.
I'm just pointing out that the way this works is not very good. They should have just told us at the start that they would be voting against all the amendments. We'd already have this thing passed.
There you go. Thank you.