Mr. Speaker, the issue is not the difference of opinion between the Reform Party and the Bloc with respect to the legislation. The issue is that the people of Canada will not have an opportunity for this matter to be brought to their attention.
It may well be that the judgment of the people of Canada might side with that of the Bloc and that of the government. That is entirely possible. However the light speed in which the government is attempting to jam this complicated piece of legislation through the House of Commons, in particular with respect to trying to save the embarrassment of the finance minister, the revenue minister and the prime minister, is the issue. As an issue of parliamentary procedure we have to give the people of Canada an opportunity to know what the Liberals are attempting to pull off.
In this case the Liberals are attempting to correct a wrong that their government, the same finance minister, created in the first place. Now they are trying to clean it up as quickly as possible.
I am rather surprised from a strategic political perspective that the Bloc Quebecois did not realize the official opposition and members of the other opposition parties were attempting to bring awareness of the issue to the level of competence of the minister and his department.