Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to enter into this debate. I want to take this opportunity to say how miffed I am. Is miffed a parliamentary word, because I am miffed. I am upset that the government is so anxious, as my colleague has just said, to get its claws on this money before anyone wakes up to what it is doing, It will all be swept under the rug. The government will get its spin doctors out there and everyone will be talking about it.
I am not even permitted to give my speech. I have one ready but it looks as if I am not going to get on because the government has said, “We are not going to listen to any reason. We are just going to do what we want to do. We are the government. We know everything. We know best”.
The fact is that the recipients and the people who are still paying into this pension are concerned. I am very disappointed that the government, just because it has a slim majority, thinks it can jam things through. How dreadful it is that the Prime Minister is forcing these people to vote whether they want to or not in the way of the minister.
I would like my colleague who gave such an excellent speech on this topic to comment a little about the lack of parliamentary process in this issue as with many issues that the government deals with.