Mr. Speaker, first off, I would like to say to my colleague that we are members of the Bloc Quebecois, not the Parti Quebecois as he incorrectly said. There is a difference. Second, just because other parties make mistakes does not mean that the government should repeat
them. I think that goes without saying. We must improve the situation, and sometimes that requires drawing up a balance sheet.
I do not want to compare one government to another. I am a member of the Bloc Quebecois, a federal party, and my role is to criticize what the federal government, the Liberal government does. I can understand, however, certain points made by the Liberal member. It is true that promises can be made in the heat of an election campaign which a government will realize, once it gets into office, that it cannot fulfil because certain things have changed in the meanwhile.
Therefore, why not simply say, in all honesty: "We are sorry, we cannot attain the goal we set regarding parliamentary reform, for x number of reasons"? And not do what the Liberals are currently doing: Clinging desperately to the goal they set in the red book, inventing a story to give people the impression that they have done something. This lacks integrity and perpetuates the lack of transparency in this House.
As I was saying earlier, the Liberals reign supreme in the art of making it look like they are doing something, while, in reality, they are doing absolutely nothing. I have said it once and will say it again, there is room for improvement in the area of transparency and also in the area of listening to the opposition, because we are right on several issues.