I would like to come back to the fact that we need bills on this topic to be tabled regularly so that we can avoid having to deal with bills on technical elements that are 1,000 pages long.
Like Mr. McCallum, I do not believe that a minority government is the only excuse here. You effectively admitted that that was not the only reason. If I am not mistaken, a bill was tabled in 2007. It was aimed at providing a fiscal update. As being a minority government was not the only excuse, I would like to know why the government did not table this bill after the 2008 election. There were, after all, three years before the next elections.
This is a very extensive bill that does not contain particularly controversial issues, apart from a few. Why could it not be tabled during the last parliament?