Madam Speaker, I will choose to appreciate and thank my colleague for her compliment.
The challenge is that, while we have had some time at committee to look at Bill C-9, the most contentious part of it, which is the removal of the religious defence, had no witness testimony and no opportunity to freely discuss it with the people who would be most affected.
It is in that spirit that even our efforts to rectify this were met by denunciation from the Liberals, who on one hand claimed co-operation and collaboration, but on the other hand slapped our hand away when we offered to give them a legislative safeguard that did what they claimed they wanted Bill C-9 to do.
When we, as a committee, are looking at a bill, we do not, as members of Parliament, have the moral or legal right to bargain away Canadians' fundamental rights and freedoms.