Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague from Laurentides—Labelle for this relevant question.
Perhaps the Conservatives do hope to pass this bill quickly and quietly, before Canadians really notice. However, thanks to the hard work of all my NDP colleagues, that will not happen. People know what is going on, and provincial elected representatives have also criticized the fact that that recommendation was not included in the bill. This is a problem.
The NDP members took the time to rise in the House to discuss this issue and shed some light on the problem, unlike the Conservative and Liberal members, who preferred to stay out of the debate altogether. We were able to shed some light on this problem.
Rest assured that in 2015, an NDP government will tackle the issue while working with the provinces, which is what should have been done all along.