Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for his speech. We are pleased that this bill has finally been introduced in the House.
I would like to ask him a question about something he said at the end of his speech. He said that it is not true that the government delayed this bill. Yet the bill has been languishing for nearly a year since it was introduced. Why have the Conservatives not made more of an effort to consult the other parties over the past few weeks to get their support?
Why did this take so long?