Thank you.
I'm a new member, but I've been told that private members' bills, even though they're not whipped, tend to fail when they require royal assent. Frankly, costing them, in my view, will not help to influence government members to vote for a private member's bill that comes from the opposition. So when the private member's legislation fails in the House, what value will the costing information be? What's the value of this info in the long term to members of this House?
I agree with the points that have been brought up by other members. Does the PBO really have the capacity to deal with an onslaught of private members' bills and costing them? There are 12 to 14 people working in PBO, I think. Is that correct? If members of all parties flood the PBO with private members' bills, and they have to do this costing information, maybe they won't be able to do more important work.