Mr. Speaker, I thank the member opposite for the question.
I actually quoted the reeve from the rural municipality of Ethelbert. She said that she had heard about the Liberal task force.
I can certainly explain the real workings of what happened with the task force. My staff in my riding in Manitoba have followed the works of the task force since January. We called the office of the member for Charleswood St. James—Assiniboia several times to get a schedule for the meetings and information on how one would access the meetings. We received requests from constituents in terms of how to access the hearings.
Unfortunately right up to the week previous we could not get a schedule of the meetings and no one seemed to know how to access them. It certainly was one of the best kept secrets of the task force. I would have appeared before the task force just to listen to the concerns of Manitobans. That is the reality of how the task force worked in Manitoba.
It is not that we do not support public consultation; we all do it. We need to do it, but it is how this Liberal government is doing it.