I thank the honourable member for her question.
As I said in the other official language, you can't have an election every time you have a disagreement with the government. That's number one. I think you yourself acknowledge that in a minority Parliament that's actually a reasonable position to take.
Secondly, Bill C-10, the budget bill we are discussing, is what in common parlance is called a “dumpster bill”; you pile a lot of stuff in there. In our view, that is an absolutely terrible way to do parliamentary legislation. If the Conservative government had decided to introduce this bill on a stand-alone basis, they would have had a different result, and I think they knew it.
So it is our view that going forward, as we seek to make parliaments work, these kinds of dumpster bills, in which you load a lot of stuff, are a terrible way to do good legislation in the Parliament of Canada. Remember that we were in a very difficult financial situation, in a global recession. There were reasons to pass that budget, but we said at the time that we were holding our noses over pay equity—