Madam Speaker, I listened carefully to the parliamentary secretary, as I do with all hon. members who rise to speak here.
There seems to be great consensus on the spirit of the legislation. We want to move forward and recognize this, but this has to be done correctly. We cannot botch this because we know there are 60 or so indigenous languages to be promoted and protected. That is why we are here in the House of Commons. We will send this bill to parliamentary committee to take a serious look at it. We need to take our time and deal with this properly.
I will speak to this bill later because, with an indigenous community in my riding, I have some things to say. There are more than 100 MPs here with indigenous communities in their ridings and they will have some things to say.
Would the parliamentary secretary agree to allow all those who want to speak to this bill to do so?
Everyone agrees that this is a non-partisan issue, but we must address it properly.