Madam Speaker, I will not speak more than a few moments. I want to reply briefly to what the member from the government side said and to support my colleague.
The government made the point that it has an obligation to pass the legislation as quickly as possible. The Liberals had six months. They knew it was coming but they have left it to the 11th hour. We have seen time and time again in the last four years that they ram things through at the last moment. I want to register my objection to the process here.
We did not have the opportunity at committee to introduce a lot of these amendments. I support the amendments that are being made. I think they are being put forth in good faith. They are proper amendments.
The government is dismissing them at hand because they come from the opposition. I do not think that is acceptable. I would like to register my objection to these kinds of things happening in the House.
For democracy to function properly we need time to look at legislation, to examine it properly and to make sure it is the best legislation we can have. We have seen too much legislation being passed with time allocation, being rammed through at the last minute. Then we come back and realize that we did not get it right, that we made some grave errors. It is happening again and again.
We could have done this months ago. This could have been introduced at the beginning of this Parliament but it was not. That ought to be on the record to show that we do not like what is happening in the House.