Mr. Chair, you have to understand that we used essentially the document that was provided to us by the Department of Finance and which we referred to from time to time.
Yet, those are three different documents and they all have different page numbers, so I would like to ask whether the department officials would be kind enough to tell us at what page clause 2 can be found in the legal document, in the document prepared by the Department of Finance and in the Income Tax Act. Failing that, we will have to search in all three documents the exact reference of what we are voting on. The Revenue Department decided to use 3 different page numberings for each section.
You cannot ask us to vote on clauses without knowing what we are talking about. We do not even know what it is all about. You give us clause numbers without explaining the legal contents. These clauses are related to the page numbering existing in Bill C-13, but it is not the same in the document provided by the Department of Finance, in the document provided by the Library of Parliament, and in the Income Tax Act. In other words, you ask us to search simultaneously in four documents for every vote, without telling us the page number. I am sorry, but you are asking us to sign a blank cheque. As lawmakers, we should know what we are voting on.