That is right. It is not democracy. Is it thinking that the people who were elected to the House of Commons to debate bills are not worthy enough to debate them? Is that what we are talking about? Why on earth does the government send legislation directly to an unelected, unaccountable body called the Senate or sleepy hollow, as I would call it.
Bill C-10 represents taxation to some Canadian people. My colleagues in the House have a right to debate it. They want to debate it as long as they feel it is necessary. It is not incumbent upon the government to limit such debate. It is not right the government should limit such debate.
The message is becoming very clear. The government whip should know it will take co-operation from all sides of the House to work on legislation. The message is coming to us loud and clear. It is not just legislation that will have a problem in the House. There are all kinds of committees, bodies and other means whereby we work together.
Surely the government does not want to work like this for the next four years. If it does, I guess it will be a long, long time in here and it will not be very pleasant.
We have requests from the government to fly all over the world. We can cancel their votes in the House of Commons. The fact of the matter is that there is such a slim majority in the House of Commons the government will be in the House a lot more than it was before, and it had better get used to it.
It looks like with Bill C-10 some people are going to end up getting taxed in this country. They are going to wonder why they were not well informed. The answer is those members in opposition who critique these bills did not have an adequate opportunity. That is the real answer to all of this. It is really too bad because I think we all came here to present lively articulate debate on these issues. I guess the government just consists of a shameful group of people who have come here to push legislation because they have a majority. One of these days in this House they will neither have a majority nor a government. I am looking forward to that day.