I am skeptical about this. A number of you were in the House in 2005 when you tried to bring down the Martin government. You all insisted this was a confidence matter, and they said no, it was attached to a committee's report and therefore was a procedural motion.
The people who decide whether it's confidence or not on these bills are the government. It's not the opposition, unless it's explicit you're voting non-confidence. We saw this in the 2005 case, when you said, “We're voting non-confidence in you, but the only way we can do it is by attaching it to this committee report.” The government said, “Well, too bad, that's a procedural way. It isn't the formal motion of non-confidence. We haven't given't you an opportunity to vote on it.”
Correct me if I'm wrong. Didn't the Prime Minister earlier this year say every bill would be a matter of confidence? So the government does decide whether it wants to fall on the long gun... Any piece of legislation it wants to introduce is confidence.