Mr. Speaker, a member on the government side says it has nothing to do with the amendments. I will say it for the third time. The premise of the government's argument on Bill C-78 is that it wants Canadians to trust it with the expenditures of these funds, which are Canadians' hard earned tax dollars. That is the premise of the government's argument for this bill. It is also the premise for rejecting the amendments that the opposition is bringing forward.
I state once again that if the government wants to seriously have the trust of Canadians, then it had better do a better job on accountability in terms of taking care of taxpayers' dollars, such as the $30 billion surplus in the pension fund that it says it is going to apply to the debt. How can we know that to be the case when we see these examples popping up over and over again of the government wasting taxpayers' dollars?
I can understand why the government would rise on points of order to try to shut down this line of debate because it is embarrassing for it. It is very embarrassing.