Now, Madam Speaker, you observed before, and so did many others, that ordinarily, when the House is in a second reading, we would have the opportunity to reflect on what happened during the select committee process—excuse me, there's a glass down there; I just kicked it—and we would have in the select committee heard from submitters, who would have raised valid points for our consideration. I have no doubt at all that if this bill had been allowed to go to a select committee, even if only for a short time—and we accept that sometimes select committees have to operate under very tight constraints because of a truncated select committee process. But even if it had only been for a short time, I have no doubt that we would have heard from a host of beneficiaries' advocates, and they would have told us why they felt that this bill is so unfair. I'm sure we would have heard from the Council of Trade Unions. I imagine we would probably have heard from the National Council of Women, because I really admire the fact that just about every aspect of public policy that comes before this Parliament attracts comment, submissions, and sincere advice from the National Council of Women. But they've all been shut out of this process, and you'd have to ask why. 