Mr. Chair, we're back now in the sixth hour of examining this massive budget bill that the Speaker said was omnibus legislation and improper. It certainly flies in the face of what the Prime Minister committed to in 2015. He promised, as a solemn commitment from the Liberal Party, that we wouldn't see any more massive bricks like this. We now have this before us.
It has been rammed through, section by section. No amendments of the opposition have been accepted, which means that the problems with the bill, including a very heavily flawed pay equity section will remain. It will now require women to return to court, tragically, to obtain the rights they should have received through this legislation.
Subsequent to that, we have seen other sections as well where major flaws have not been addressed at all. We haven't even addressed flaws in previous omnibus legislation from this government, even though we were given the opportunity.
The fact is that this legislation has been bulldozed through second reading in Parliament, given only a few days to put together amendments, and the legislative drafters did the best they absolutely could. Given the intent of this government to bulldoze things through, we now arrive at a day when we have only scant time left before everything that is remaining in this bill is adopted, regardless of whether we've debated it or discussed it, even for a microsecond or not. That is the bulldozing legislation that this government has chosen to do, and it repudiates every commitment made back in 2015.
To my mind, and I think to the minds of most people in the public, this government is betraying the commitments it made back in 2015 by not allowing members of Parliament to do their work.
We still have a lot of amendments to go through, so I am going to withdraw NDP-12 because I know there are many amendments still to be considered, and the reality is that given these timelines, we'll be lucky to get microseconds of discussion around some of the amendments to come.