Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Another Canadian wrote, “Please stop political pensions and the week delay in voting. A great majority of Canadians are struggling to survive, please help us! Justin T. must go! Bring common sense back.”
Another said:
It's bad enough that the NDP Liberal coalition is continuing to prop up this unwanted government. Do not allow the due process of mandatory elections delay an extra week just to enable MPs to illegally get their pensions.
If these same politicians were honoring their mandate and governing in the best interest of their constituents, we would have had an election by now.
Let them run on their political record and see if the people of Canada want these folks re-elected. My thoughts are that they have absolutely no chance of that.
Stop election interference and do not delay our long overdue elections.
I could go on, because my office has received thousands and thousands of emails from Canadians. I suspect my colleagues across the way on the Liberal side and in the NDP have also heard from many Canadians who have made their voices heard.
Mr. Turnbull has asked why we don't just get on to amending the bill. I would like to amend the bill. Conservatives have put forward a number of amendments to amend this very bad bill, including with respect to the date of the next election, but Mr. Turnbull is perhaps missing the point of the motion.
Now that the NDP and the Liberals have been caught with this pension grab, they have said it's one big misunderstanding. Even though they drafted a bill that by no coincidence just happens to be the date on which soon-to-be defeated NDP and Liberal MPs get their pensions, they now say that, actually, they don't support having the election change to that specific date; they're not interested in their pensions anymore. Now that they've been caught, that's what they've been saying. I'm not so sure that's what the Liberals have been saying, but that's what Jagmeet Singh has been saying—that it's all one big misunderstanding.
If that's the case, then there are amendments the Conservatives have put forward that I would hope the NDP will support. They would support their rather convenient assertion that it's all one big misunderstanding, which up until now no one believes. Simply to say that now that we've been caught—