Okay. Thank you very much, because your answers get to the heart of a major problem.
Mrs. Glover spoke passionately about the bill, and she said that it was absolutely essential. She spoke about it arising out of negotiations relating to a treaty that was signed previously and said that we absolutely had to put it into a budgetary bill.
Instead, I think that, to be able to study the bill appropriately—Mr. Brison raised a good point about this—we should present it separately, and absolutely nothing would have prevented the government, after the election in June 2011, to present it as one of its first bills, if it was so urgent and so important to do so. However, it chose to wait to have a budget implementation bill to put it in part 4 along with 55 other divisions.
Once again, we do not think this is acceptable. There is no impact, zero financial impact. As for the RCMP, I think it was clear in the testimonies that we heard. As for us, this is quite a significant matter of principle: this type of provision must be discussed and voted on separately.