Yes, thank you, Mr. Chairman. If I may, I am a Member of this committee and I guess it is probably not appropriate for me to congratulate the chairman
on the report, but I would like to just generally say that in co-operation with the standing committee on legislation I think we now have an improved legislative process. I hope Members of this committee will agree so that we can put the new rules into place beginning tomorrow. I understand if we approve it here that they could be in effect quite quickly, and I also would like to say that I think the Member's comments on the issue of amendments were appropriate.
I think 90 percent of the time we solve these issues in the committee and we should be proud of the way our consensus system works in that our committees are effective in getting legislation changed and approved in a co-operative manner. When that does not happen it should come to the whole House and so I agree with the approach that has been made and I do think it will apply only in a small percentage of the situations. Most of the time the bills can be amended and improved in committee co-operatively with the sponsor of the bill, whether that sponsor be a Minister or private Member.