Mr. Speaker, those types of low comments across the way indicate to us the lack of respect that the people of Alberta get in this institution and around this place when proposing these types of fundamental changes.
Let me talk about extradition in Bill C-40. It is about extradition. It is about international crime and international criminals and havens for crime. It is about slowness and the complexity of the extradition process and the judicial process in general. Bill C-40 is about modernizing the law and bringing it up to speed with the current day. It is about flaws in the actual mechanics of the law. It is about political intrusion in the process.
That is what Bill C-40 is about. That is what we are addressing today. We have all those problems in spades with what is going on with regard to extradition in this country. It is a crying shame in this House today that we have Liberals who have reneged on their promises which they made in 1990, Liberals who reneged on the promises they made in their red book because they said they wanted to see a transparent and open process. We are not seeing that because I am not even allowed to present these petitions on behalf of the people of Alberta who would love to see somebody extradited who is spending their time down in Mexico and violating Canadians by not doing what they should be doing when they are receiving a salary on behalf of the people of Canada. I will have to find some other way to address these things, to bring them forward and to make sure that the Prime Minister is able to peruse through these petitions as the hon. members across the way should have the ability and should also have the duty and the responsibility to go through these petitions and consider what Albertans have to say about this issue of extraditing criminals who are serving outside of Canada in safe havens away from Canadian law and from the responsibilities here in Canada.