Mr. Speaker, it is clear to me that the government House leader is upset with the number of amendments put forward. I know you will deal as best as you can with whether they are in order, how they will be grouped and all that. We have to leave it to you and your staff to do that.
It obvious to me that what has happened here again is that we have the government bringing forward a very controversial bill. It has limited debate in the House of Commons. It went to committee and it limited the debate in committee.
It refused to let the committee travel. It refused to let the committee have a full list of witnesses. At every opportunity it refused to allow the opposition parties, whether for or against the bill, to have ample opportunity to discuss the bill in its entirety, clause by clause, to get a full hearing of it. It disallowed any travel whatsoever.
It is crocodile tears from the government House leader to say that someone is obstructing the business of government when we repeatedly see a record number of time allocation and closure motions by the government. Time after time the government has been stepping in not to interrupt the operations of government but the operations of democracy.