Mr. Speaker, it was going to be a pleasure to rise to speak to this bill and to talk about the great things that my colleague from Surrey North has done in this House, and about how even the government has inserted what the member has in this bill into its legislation.
We heard the government whip say “Let's defer the vote”, and we all thought that was fine, but in the middle of the debate the member for Elgin—Middlesex—London moved a motion to hoist the bill. The people who are listening probably do not understand that the motion to hoist will delay the bill for six months in order that we can have a look at it. Maybe they think that is a good idea. However, in parliamentary terms the government has killed this private member's bill. The bill is dead.