Mr. Chair, the committee has entered new lows. Explain to Canadians out there that it's a couple of seconds to vote and 60 seconds to speak on each of these individual clauses. What a farcical approach to governance. This is absolutely the lowest period I've seen in my two and a half years on the Hill. Absolutely inappropriate. We have a bill now that we are ramming through. We know there are errors and mistakes, and yet we're continuing to do it, or at least some members of the committee are.
We have a situation here now, another one of these many punitive clauses we'll be talking about throughout the evening, on the issue of how interest is compounded. Now, in this draconian act, interest is compounded daily, which means increased costs for the softwood companies that are already paying the penalties. There is absolutely no flexibility because this committee has shut down any approach to allow certain bridge funding or a bridge period before people have to pay the bills as they come. They're artificial. This entire agreement is based on the Conservatives trying to save—