Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech, but I am a little confused. He mentioned the different groups that were consulted and the 300,000 responses that were received, but it was my understanding that there was to be a legislative review of the MAID legislation this year in June, which did not happen and still has not happened. It almost seems like the government did not want to let the normal process happen and instead wanted to control it and provide the information it wanted, or perhaps the minister wanted to pursue his own agenda or his own vision.
Why did the government not deal with the Truchon issue that needed to be dealt with and leave the rest of the changes until after the proper legislative review had been completed as required by the legislation?