Mr. Speaker, unfortunately it seems that the more important the legislation is, the less opportunity the House of Commons has to debate and consider it. This is a pattern which worries me very much.
Would it not have been better to have had some time to debate the authenticity of the sunset clause that the minister put into the legislation and whether or not it was justified being called a sunset clause? If she was judging a paper by one of her former students, would she not see the distinction between debate about what should follow from September 11 and debate about a piece of amended legislation, that is the difference between legislation unamended and legislation amended?
We are talking about a new situation which came out of committee. We should have a right to debate it and not have time allocation moved on the first day after it is out of committee.