Thank you, Mr. Chair, for recognizing me. That is not the reason this has happened. First, it was not a question of money, nor of royal assent, but rather a question of including the notion of essential services in the bill, and the Speaker of the House felt that that went beyond the scope of the bill.
We cannot say anything we like, such as that it is a Bloc Québécois bill on replacement workers. I do not want to be a party-pooper. But there are 308 MPs in the House, and any one of them can get up and say that the bill goes beyond its original scope...I do not want to be a party-pooper, I want to make sure that the work we are doing here can come to an appropriate conclusion and follow a normal procedure. We must not keep working just to end up in a situation like the one I was talking about, especially when there are precedents, and when they have been brought to our attention.