Mr. Chair, for sure, I'll speak in depth to those.
If the honourable member brought that forward, then I will certainly get back to the Library of Parliament and ask why I couldn't find any of that.
I guess what's striking to me is, again, the Liberal slap in the face to Italians at the time this honourable member was not able to get his party's support to bring forward this bill and to pass it when they were in government. I think that is what's even now more surprising to me, Mr. Chair. I apologize that I was unable to find that.
I've never doubted the honourable member's sincerity and the work that he does on behalf of his constituents. If my research was a bit lacking, I do apologize for that.
I didn't read that aspect of it because the honourable member, as I mentioned earlier, didn't have the courtesy to send forward anything to the opposite side when he introduced this. I can only assume that bill was as poorly written as this bill, and that's why his government at the time could not allow it to go forward. I can't foresee any other reason that the Liberal government would again continue a strong tradition of over 50 to 60 years of slapping people in the face and ignoring what are perceived to be the wrongs.
I don't know if the honourable member has time to explain why his party didn't support that and help in getting it through quickly. I guess we can find time to do that later. Indeed, Mr. Chair, I think that's one of the important things.
I think we can reference back to his earlier attempts when we get off these points of order. We can reference back to his earlier attempts as to why this particular piece of legislation is such a bad piece of legislation. I wonder if some of the elements that make this so bad were present in that piece of legislation as well. But I guess I can get into that when we get off the point of order and get back to discussing that clause.