Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to serve with that member on the natural resources committee where we both worked hard to ensure this legislation would pass in an expedited manner.
I cannot speak to the negotiations that the government had or the reasons it had for trying to move this through the Senate. However, I will commend the work of our senators, particularly one of the Conservative senators who called for a common sense amendment to lower the timeline from 24 months down to 12 months. This shows that there are a lot of positive things the other place can do.
I know in the House, the Conservatives are going to work as hard as we can to ensure the legislation gets through today.