Madam Speaker, that is a reasonable question. The government did give priority to Bill C-31. Since the bill was introduced in the House, we have spent more hours debating this bill than almost any other bill. We made it a priority to send the bill to committee.
As I just mentioned, the bill has been debated for 13 days or 47.5 hours. Members have given 130 speeches on this matter, which is a lot. There have also been questions and comments after almost every speech. The bill was studied in detail in committee.
I must point out that the government made the substantial amendments suggested by the committee. The government agreed to the amendments proposed by the opposition.
Quite frankly, I believe that this is an example of a process that works very well when it comes to the proceedings and the opposition interests.