Madam Speaker, we need to work collaboratively in the House. The government tabled this bill back in June. It is a part of the government's responsibility to draft legislation and to table it in the House, but moving that bill forward through the House requires opposition parties to work with us and to put forward amendments to that bill. Once again, I would say Bill C-2 has been blocked due to opposition parties not supporting that bill. Conservatives and other parties are included.
Therefore, the compromise that we came to was that we took some aspects of that bill, put them in Bill C-12 and are moving those forward. This is because we do not want other things not to pass and progress through the House, but there are important measures, like lawful access, still left in Bill C-2. The Minister of Public Safety and I are working with civil society organizations to try to come to a compromise so that we can also get those measures passed, because police desperately need them.