Mr. Speaker, time will tell.
With respect to consultation, first the justice department leaks its gun control proposals to the media with appropriate spin doctoring. Then it breeds the support of the interest groups and only then, five days later, does Parliament get to see the documents and the provinces are included almost as an afterthought.
The government puts public relations and interest groups ahead of Parliament every time. It has done this on social policy. It has done it on immigration, on finance and gun control.
Does this order of preference, media leaks first, interest groups second, Parliament third and provinces dead last, reflect the government's consultative priority?