Madam Speaker, of course, when amendments are moved by any member in the House on this bill, they are considered by the Chair and the Speaker will decide at the beginning of the debate at report stage.
Regrettably, with this motion, we specified that the debate would begin 48 hours after the report, but we will have only 80
hours. So it will be a little harder for the Chair and also for members, but that is the arrangement we made.
The report from the committee will be received on May 25 and the debate will start on May 26. We have arranged for the debate to start on that day.
Those days have been designated because they are long days in order to give the opposition every opportunity to debate this bill on a reasonable basis. We could have the debate on a Friday but it is a short day. In order to lengthen the opportunities for the opposition, we have agreed to have the debate on the Thursday and Monday instead. That is the reason we have shortened the notice period for the report stage. However I think it is a reasonable compromise and that is the reason for it.