Mr. Speaker, where has this guy been? I thought this morning we articulated our position rather well. However it was not just this morning. I just got through saying that for several months now we have been trying to get this government to listen to issues such as final offer arbitration. We have been trying to tell the government, even in the last session of Parliament, how to avoid these kinds of things.
We have also tried to convince the government that this whole issue could have been stopped earlier in the process if the right tactics had been used, if the right advice had been given and so on and so forth. I am not sure where this member comes from, to tell you the truth.
It is essential for the government to get a clear message here. Regardless of what kind of spin it puts on this, it is essential that the government walk away from this exercise in 1997 and say: “We have to develop a better plan, a better process, because this one does not work”.
We will never recover all of the moneys lost in this country by small business and charities. That is gone. It seems of no consequence over here. That is the real galling part of all of this.
To answer the member's question, get up earlier in the morning, come to the House, listen to the members and you will learn a whole bunch more.