Mr. Speaker, according to the minister in his previous answer to me he said that they identified the principle on which they acted. I think everyone on this side of the House has told him that principle is obviously flawed.
I am quoting the minister now from February. In the Globe and Mail in February he said “This compensation package is about compassion, about fairness and appropriate compensation to people who were injured through no fault of their own”. How can he actually stand up in his place and say that this package is fair when it excludes 40,000 Canadians who are hurting?