I've been listening to this conversation and I am grateful to be part of it. I'm grateful to be part of these very respectful questions of small business and of the unemployed. I'm sitting here thinking that this piece of legislation needs to be split apart between fiscal measures and non-fiscal measures, and the parts that are non-fiscal, that are recreating huge pieces of public policy—huge pieces of public policy—with zero scrutiny, need to themselves be treated separate and apart. There is absolutely no way this process, which is designed to introduce amendments, is going to deliver that sort of thing because of the nature of where we're at.
It really saddens me to watch our democratic institutions, which are here to prevent this kind of railroading of public policy and to permit scrutiny and democratic discussion, not being permitted to anymore. We're in a democracy. We have these tools at our disposal and we can't do it. We're going to talk about small business and the unemployed. With due respect, that isn't what we're here to discuss. We're here to discuss a piece of legislation, a project for implementing a budget, our second budget implementation bill, that stuffs even more things that have got nothing to do with a budget in it, that can actually rewrite Canadian history when it comes to immigration, to selecting a Supreme Court justice, to defining what is health and safety of workers.
That strikes me as improbable, that we are having this discussion about where should we go from here on small business taxes. That isn't what this bill is about.