Mr. Speaker, to my hon. friend for whom I have a great deal of respect, I just want him to know that it did go throw the process. It went through the House here and it was referred to the Senate, which is the normal process as we already know. Perhaps hon. members feel that should be looked at and assessed, but it did go through the House and it went through the normal process. The Senate looked at it and it will go through it again and it is over when it comes back from the Senate. There will be others that will come, but it goes through a normal process.
There was a time in the last Parliament when I personally had an opportunity to see the role they had to play when we did not have an official opposition that represented the whole of Canada. There was an opposition there that worked extremely hard. I would say they did not play party politics in the Senate all the time. They did what they thought was best. So there is a time when there is a need.