My friend says: "Because they are getting rid of Beaver River". Let us cut to the basics here. That is very true. It would be easy for me to stand today in the House of Commons and say I think that shelving the whole thing is a marvellous idea. We would then see a cocooning of Beaver River and, if it were politically motivated, I would say: "Whew, that makes me safe".
There is something far deeper, far more democratically essential in terms of this debate. Whether I would lose my constituency or whether my neighbour from Kindersley-Lloydminister would, as is the case as well, that is not the issue. People watching the debate need to be aware of exactly what is going here and the things they have heard from just one party in the House. Granted, the government House leader spoke and someone from the Bloc spoke, but basically they have heard from the Reform Party.
Why has the Reform Party been talking about this bill all day long? Why are we concerned about the whole idea? If it were just political we would say: "Let us put the thing off, shelve it for two years, and get back to looking at the details later". That is not the case here.