Madam Speaker, I would like to inform my colleague opposite that I was not in the last Parliament. I would have had a lot to say about the legislation if I had been.
The members on the other side and the deputy government House leader say they want the bill to go to committee so it can be made better. The bill already went to committee. Multiple experts from the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, the Canadian Constitution Foundation, Ligue des droits et libertés, OpenMedia and the Privacy & Access Council of Canada were there. They gave their comments. They wrote an open letter, in which they said the legislation “lacks guardrails to constrain abuse”, that its “secrecy undermines accountability and due process” and that it “lacks justification”. It would not do what it says it would do.
If the Liberals want the bill to be made better in committee but it has already been there and they had all summer to improve it, why did they not effect the amendments the experts from civil society organizations asked for?