Mr. Speaker, it is very telling that Liberals were applauding the Bloc member. I go back to what I was saying previously about the three legged stool. If one of the legs is shortened, the stool will fall over.
We are talking about people, politicians and press. Bloc Quebecois members are probably siding with the politicians on the other side of the floor. That is fine. They have been bedfellows before. I am sure they will be bedfellows again.
The difficulty is that the government is trying to ram through legislation at lightening speed so that the three legged stool falls over and the politician ends up with the ability to get away with murder in this case.
Far be it from me to tell an intelligent member like the one from the Bloc how to conduct himself, but the reality is that if the debate had finished today and had not gone into committee, which it is now destined to do as a result of the lack of Bloc support, there would have been at least one more day of debate and hopefully Canadians would have been given the opportunity to know what was going on in this place.
The Bloc should have sided with us to stop the government from ramming through this stuff as though it were grease under skids.