Mr. Speaker, I am not sure whether the hon. member has understood what I said. First of all, our party has announced that it agrees with the bill.
Our party will be proposing improvements to the bill, through our critic, the hon. member for Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup—Témiscouata—Les Basques. What we do hold against this government, to which the hon. member who has just asked the question belongs, since he is a Liberal MP with several mandates under his belt—to go back to the catechism we had to learn when we were a little younger, in which there were different kinds of sins—is a sin, not of commission, but of omission.
It has done nothing. It has been lax ever since 1993. As soon as the Liberals came to power in 1993, when they became aware of the state this plan was in, they ought to have acted, got something accomplished. Why, now that we are nearly in 1998, has nothing been done since 1993?
I know that if the hon. member had a second chance to speak, he would say “Yes, but nothing was done during the two mandates of the Conservative government”. That is true, yes, nothing was done in 1984, and in 1988, but that just confirms what the Bloc Quebecois has always said “Liberal or Conservative, it is six of one and half a dozen of the other. They are all alike”.