Madam Speaker, that is rhetorical nonsense and he knows it. Again he is attempting to find a scapegoat as they normally attempt to do on any issue they are not comfortable with. The truth of the matter is that his House leader conspired in secret with the House leader of the government to bring their members into a pension plan which they railed against for 10 years of their elected life. That is the sad reality.
We are talking about a simple plan that no other member of parliament including House leaders were involved in. We have always made pretty clear where we stand on pensions, as do the NDP and for the most part the Liberals. They conspired with the House leader of the government to bring this about very quietly in the dying days of this session of parliament.