Mr. Speaker, I listened with a great deal of interest to the speech of the hon. member for Bourassa, because it contained many good ideas. I hope he will sit on the standing committee on government operations, to which this bill will be referred. He will then have the opportunity to move amendments because, as he knows very well, the government introduced this bill and moved that it be referred to committee today, before second reading, so that he and other members on the standing committee can move all kinds of amendments. That is part and parcel of the new procedure introduced by the government at the beginning of this session of Parliament, and I certainly hope the hon. member will be on the committee with his ideas and amendments.
I think it is an extremely important procedure that is being followed on this particular bill. I say so because I think the bill has some deficiencies, some of which were pointed out by the hon. member in his speech, which cause me concern. I am sure the members of the committee will want to take a very careful look at it.
As a member of the scrutiny of regulations committee who has been working in this area for about two years now, I have my own concerns about this bill. I am sorry that it is not being referred to the Standing Joint Committee on Scrutiny of Regulations, which has some expertise in this area among the members of the committee who have worked on this. Many of the members of the committee have worked on it a good deal longer than I have and are far more knowledgeable. I am sorry they are not going to have the opportunity to deal with it as a committee.
On the other hand, I strongly suspect some of us will attend the odd meeting of the government operations committee and make known our views in respect of certain aspects of this bill, which I hope will help the minister as he deals with it in committee and will help make the bill a better one for everybody in Parliament.