Mr. Speaker, I thank the member from the Bloc for her insightful comments.
I found her summary of the Hamilton case and the issue of persons with celiac disease being cut off the disability tax credit very interesting.
I was also interested in the whole issue around the way the federal government very quietly and surreptitiously tabled its response to the disability subcommittee's report. I am sure all the committee members were embarrassed when they received calls from the media saying that the media had heard the report was out and that the finance committee had put forward some new amendments. We knew nothing of them and when we did see them they were punitive and meanspirited. We were left feeling very much that the whole democratic process we had undertaken in good faith with people in the disability community and with professionals in the medical community had been for naught and had been a joke.
New Democrats have a letter writing campaign to put this whole issue on the table. I am happy to hear that the Bloc is doing the same kind of thing as a petition in Quebec.
What does the member think of this type of strategy on the part of the government? It released the response in the middle of the summer. It released proposed amendments in the dog days of summer when in fact no one was around to respond, to herald it or to criticize it? What does that really say to her about the kind of government we are looking at here?