Well, at this point Ms. Morency is speaking for the government. She is a government official, but all throughout the history of Parliament, it is ministers who speak in Parliament for the government. In fact, your own government has made the point more than once, and in writing, that it is ministers who speak for the government, and not public officials.
We are deliberating passing, clause by clause, a government bill here, and if there is no one speaking for the government—