Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the hon. member's concurrence with my remarks.
In order to obtain the integrity of this House and the transparency and the visibility the Canadian people are looking for one has to have a truly independent ethics counsellor.
Perhaps I can give this example. It is almost like two baseball teams playing a game of baseball. If the umpire is chosen by both teams to be independent then it is a fine game. However, if the umpire is chosen by only one team then how can the other team have any confidence that it will be a fair game?
That is what the Canadian people are saying. How do they have any confidence in what is happening in government when all the rules are determined by the Liberal government and the opposition party and the Reform Party do not have input into some very fundamental elements of fairness and integrity in the House?
The Liberals may say they are the government, they have a majority, a majority of the people voted for them. That is fine, but I would like to remind the Liberal Party that there were several million other people in Canada who did not vote for them, and they are looking very closely at what this government is doing. If the Liberal government wants to try to swing their vote the next time, they are looking for the government to give them some message and some reason to vote for them again.
If the Liberal government carries on the way it has been, not fulfilling its promises, even a good majority of its supporters, those who voted for it the last time, will become disillusioned with the fact that the Liberal government has no more intention of delivering visibility in the way it operates than the previous Tory government had.
I hope to remind the Liberal government of what happened to the previous Tory government when it did all its business behind closed doors. That should be a good lesson for this government.