Mr. Speaker, one member has just gratuitously accused me personally of leaking the government document. I hope that he would choose to withdraw an allegation like that. For him to even say that is not knowing me very well.
I would suggest, Mr. Speaker, that it is wrong for anyone to leak a report from the committee. Members of the House, I, you and everyone else have a right to see it at the same time, possibly before anyone else.
In regard to the government's motives behind this, Mr. Speaker, I can give you my impression as a member of this government. What we want to know through this process is what the general public thinks should be in the budget. That is why the process is there and that is why we have already scheduled a two day debate later in this session but before Christmas so that Canadians through their members of Parliament can have a debate in the House of Commons and listen to the valuable contributions which all members of Parliament will make in that process.
I summarize by saying that I do not believe that anyone on the government side did anything wrong in terms of the content of the report. I do agree that if anyone leaked this report to the media then that in itself is obviously wrong.