Mr. Speaker, I will always be in favour of the ideal. No doubt about that. It would have been ideal if all of that had been included.
However, as I think we can come back to this later, and it is my intention to do so in order to include the elements mentioned, it was more important for me—and the matter was considered seriously—to have Parliament vote in favour of some settlement for the whole issue of residential schools than to include everything in the initial considerations.
My personal choice was to have a vote on this motion, to set out what the government must do and what it promised to do and to have us work together in committee to complete the file.