Mr. Speaker, while listening to the comments of the member just now, I noticed an inconsistency in the debate that emerged from the Alliance Party across the floor. I was not totally surprised or shocked by that because it is quite commonplace.
If I recall, earlier on in the debate the member's colleague, the finance critic, attacked the amendment that dealt with the amendments made to the Canadian Wheat Board Act in 1998, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board was deleted in error. The member for Calgary Southeast commented that because of that the government, through the finance minister, could have been involved in some decision making with respect to the investment board. He went on in quite a diatribe about that.
The argument of the member for St. Albert went along quite a different track. He asked why we would exempt the pension plan investment board from the Financial Administration Act. It seems to me that the party is really inconsistent. Could the member for St. Albert would comment on that?