When we listen to this short title, when you hear “jobs, growth, long-term prosperity”, on the face of that we would all just sit here and say if this were real, if this delivered, it would be good. But there are huge, huge questions about this. You've heard them from this side repeatedly, on how Bill C-38 goes well beyond tax and monetary measures. It makes major changes in dozens of policy areas, including the environment, natural resources, human resources. These shouldn't have been resident in a finance committee.
We've been clear. We should not have been asked to vote on legislation that grants cabinet the power to make far-reaching regulatory changes like the ones we've seen included in this bill. It is 400 pages. We've had the discussion back and forth that yes, there have been larger bills, but not as comprehensive as this one.
I want everybody who happens to be watching—and at this time I'm sure we have thousands of people watching—