Mr. Speaker, I certainly appreciate my friend's question. We have sat on the fisheries committee together in the past and I have appreciated his contribution.
I think the member would agree with me, since we have both sat on committees for a number of years now, in some cases together and in some cases apart, that the Liberal government is not fundamentally interested in having committees decide anything. It does not really want the committees to get into these issues and examine them because the committee might make some recommendations that it would not want to have to deal with.
I am sure the hon. member would tend to agree with me that the government really does not know how to deal with the issue in front of it right now. It is almost like somebody rolled a grenade into the room. The government does not know how to deal with it but it certainly does not want to allow any other body other than itself to come up with the final decision on it. Part of the problem with our parliamentary system is that it is just not functioning the way it is supposed to.