Mr. Speaker, I too want to thank my colleague for his speech.
I find this legislation quite unbelievable.
We have court cases that are being withdrawn simultaneously with this legislation, and apparently, the government does not believe that we need to have the time to adequately debate this legislation and is imposing closure. It is the closure piece that I find even more bizarre than the fact of the legislation itself.
I would like my hon. colleague's opinion as to why now there is such a hurry to bring forward legislation to amend the 1988 act.