Mr. Speaker, that is a very tough question for me to answer. There is only one answer and that is the answer one believes in. I have been in opposition where we have had the guillotine of closure put on us. I would say that we did not like it.
Let me say first that the administration of this House because of the legislative agenda and because we do not sit as much requires this from time to time. We have brought in time allocation or closure on bills about 10 per cent compared to the previous government. I think you will find, Mr. Speaker, that any time we have brought in closure it was in the interests of making sure that the administration of certain pieces of legislation got through the system for a very specific purpose, but never in terms of shutting down debate.
We on this side of the House, and I have said this repeatedly, would welcome good, tough, solid debate from the opposition. Quite frankly sometimes we feel that the best debate we have in this Parliament is among ourselves. We have actually talked of having a good intersquad game among ourselves in the House of Commons.
The bottom line is that we have brought in closure less than 10 per cent in comparison to the Tories.