Mr. Speaker, we are not talking debate. We are talking about votes. I want to read something:
My deepest concern is that they will simply be using parliament to try to rubber-stamp or ratify decisions already taken as opposed to letting parliament be the forum in which those decisions are formulated.
Those are not my words. Those are the words of the current Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1991 when the Liberals were in opposition.
Would the Prime Minister care to tell us when he and his Minister of Foreign Affairs lost their faith in parliamentary democracy?