Mr. Speaker, it has been our experience at one time or another that to negotiate some of these items across the floor of the House without all the pertinent information is rather difficult to say the least.
However, in the spirit of co-operation that already exists on this bill, and I know that an order has already been accepted in terms of putting limitations on the time of debate at report stage, I wonder if there might be a willingness if it is deemed possible by the Chair to resume the debate at report stage. And while we have some resources and officials from the department we could look at the matter raised by the hon. member for Mercier and see if in fact there is a possibility of raising the matter she raised in the first motion which has not been deemed acceptable at this time.
We will put whatever resources we have out disposal forward and see if there is room to accept the motion being put forward. I wonder if we should not pursue the debate. We are actually taking up some very valuable time on the matter while we are negotiating across the floor of the House.