Mr. Chair, it's probably going to be no secret to you or Mr. Maloney—or, in fact, the entire Liberal membership at this committee—that we'll be opposed to adjourning this meeting for a number of reasons.
It will come to a vote, but I think it's important for me to establish why we object to this. I appreciate what Mr. Maloney is saying, in that we can pick this up in the fall as another motion and add to it or speak to it in due course, but Canadians sent us back to work.
It has been a significant period of time, going back to the 44th Parliament, since we broke in mid-December for our winter break, only to find that Justin Trudeau decided to resign as leader of the Liberal Party and plunge the country into proroguement. This wasn't the will of the majority of parliamentarians. We expected to come back at the end of January and continue our work, but because of that procedural move—which, in my humble opinion, was extremely selfish and only advanced the interests of the Liberal Party of Canada and its members in Parliament—we had to go through a leadership race. We were then plunged into a general election, which we all anticipated would probably happen after the new Prime Minister was selected as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
After the election, we waited another month before we finally returned to Parliament. I appreciate that the circumstances and the issues surrounding the election were such that there were certain priorities given to the Liberal mandate, which are now being argued and debated in the House of Commons, but throughout this entire process, Mr. Chair....
I would dare say, backing up for at least three years, that there has been a prevailing movement right across this country to have the federal government finally address some weaknesses in our criminal justice system, particularly bail reform. It wasn't just opposition MPs who voiced objection. As we all know and as this country knows, there has been a groundswell of support for change. We've heard from premiers of provinces and premiers of territories. We've heard from police chiefs across this country. We've heard from presidents of police associations. We've heard from legal groups—