First, I won't respond to this attempt to bring up the SDTC documents issue. This matter of privilege is already keeping us busy enough in the House. We won't start debating it here too. The member of Parliament is asking me to speak on behalf of the Bloc Québécois. However, the Bloc Québécois's position on this matter of privilege is quite clear in both form and substance. Let's get serious for a minute.
If this matter were truly a priority for the government, it wouldn't have put the issue in last year's budget—tabled in the third month of the year—in order to state that there would be a bill by the end of the 12th month of that year. The 2023 budget didn't state that consultations would be launched. Not only did the consultations fail to start that year, but it's the only thing that we have now that 2024 is drawing to a close. Again, the 2024 budget, which was also tabled in the third month of the year, stated that we would have a bill by the end of the 12th month of this year.
At this point, I think that it's a useful motion to remind the government that 2024 is coming to an end. We just don't seem to have the same definition of a priority.