Madam Speaker, I thank the members of the House for that consideration.
Today we are studying Bill C-72, an act to amend the Income Tax Act, to implement measures that are consequential on changes to the Canada-U.S. tax convention, and its full title is quite a mouthful. Quite frankly this bill has a loaded title to go along with all the clauses and subclauses which make it up, a lot of rhetoric and a lot of grey areas. This government should be ashamed of itself.
This is the same government that is in such a rush to get through its legislative agenda that it has invoked closure 49 times to date. It is so worried about shutting down the opposition that it has cut off debate on bill after bill, but for what?