I believe the amendment is a good start but could probably use some improvement. I will get to that.
For those who have not been watching, that's too bad, but I think you'll find this enlightening going forward. The issue is that parliamentary committees call ministers. It's an invitation, really, to call ministers to appear on their legislation, because we can't generally compel ministers to appear. This legislation is the implementation of the Liberal government's budget bill.
As the finance committee has invited the Minister of Finance to appear in the last three months on three occasions and the minister has not availed herself of that opportunity to explain and I guess to promote in some ways her initiatives, from the economic statement on, there is a feeling in Parliament that the minister may not show again—