Mr. Speaker, I, too, have benefited from the very thoughtful speech by my colleague from St. John's East on this topic.
I wonder if he has any reflections on the amount of time it has taken the government, which has been in power since 2006, to act on these issues, which we have all known exist in the RCMP.
Even after appointing its own task force, which tabled a report in 2007 called “Rebuilding the Trust”, here we are five years later and the government has brought in legislation that the minister himself admits has errors in its translation and text and appears to have been hurried at this point.
Does the member have any reflections on why it has taken the government so long to address these issues?