Madam Speaker, I will only take a few moments of the time of the House. The government will not be supporting these amendments. I will not deal with the comments or the content of the speeches of my friends across the way. I would not have enough time to do that. I will only comment on the amendments themselves.
When it comes to suggestions, which are essentially the focus of these amendments, whereby the number of directors on the board would be either from Cape Breton or from the Devco pensioners' association, with no disrespect to anyone, at the present time five of seven board members are in fact from Cape Breton. There is one vacancy, I will acknowledge.
I do not think it necessary whatsoever to limit in legislation the membership of the board. In fact, over time, as the work of the board reduces after the sale, the size of the board could conceivably decrease to one or two people. This would only limit the appointment process.
With that we will hopefully proceed to the third group of amendments.