Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for Elk Island for the question. I think it raises another very serious question. If the Liberal government has paid the $30 billion, that is fine, but where did it get it from? Where did it come up with $30 billion.
I suspect the government has already taken the $30 billion out of the public service pension fund. Let me say that again. Has the government already taken the $30 billion out of the public service pension fund without bringing it forward to the House first in some form of a bill that would allow them to do it?
Maybe the parliamentary secretary to the government House leader can tell us—and this would be scary in itself—whether the government can simply scoop that $30 billion without bringing it to the House for a vote, a vote which of course the Liberal majority would ram through anyway?
Can the government simply take that $30 billion without bringing it before the House? I pose that as a question to the hon. parliamentary secretary.