Mr. Speaker, I have been listening to all of this debate today. It shows how insidious Ottawa is that people can come forward with a bill that competes with the private sector, uses taxpayers to do it, and people in the House will stand and support it and help to shut down private businesses.
This is not the only time this has happened. Canada Post uses its dollars, the dollars that hon. members and other taxpayers will spend in terms of regular mail, to cross-subsidize and compete against people in the courier industry and against people in the private sector who deal with e-mail when Canada Post delves into that for the first time.
Once again we have the situation of the mint using taxpayer dollars to edge out private competitors. That is the type of wrong-headed philosophy that has got us into the debt that we have. As well it has been responsible for limiting and curtailing business possibilities and entrepreneurship.
I do not know how people can reasonably stand and be in favour of edging out private business.