Mr. Chair, I would like to say respectfully to my friends from the Bloc and the NDP that if we take a look at it from the point of view of the party that presently has the responsibility for these issues as the government--and I would appeal to my friends in the Liberal Party who also have had the same capacity, have historically been in a position of government--this motion and even the amended motion being discussed would say that Parliament should be able to supersede, oversee, and micromanage what a minister is doing, and I just cannot see that.
On February 22nd, 2007. See this statement in context.