Mr. Speaker, last week the Liberal government decided to take the shameful action of gagging debate in order to ram through two controversial legislative measures: Bill C-31 on the GST and Bill C-12 on unemployment insurance, once again demonstrating the federal government's lack of sensitivity to the public.
Before the Liberals came to power, no government, not even the Conservatives, had dared make use of the House to gag the deliberations of a committee.
The Liberal government prefers to obey its mandarins and certain powerful lobbies, rather than lend an ear to the population.