Mr. Speaker, I have been listening to my colleague for a while and I am somewhat surprised that, five years after the beginning of the consultation, he is not aware that the justice minister himself had given his support to microbreweries in favour of an amendment along the lines of what the Bloc Quebecois is suggesting. Microbrewers thought this would be in the bill, but today as we amend the Excise Act and the Excise Tax Act, this situation will not be rectified.
How do you expect citizens to understand what is going on except by saying “the Liberal government has decided to postpone a decision on beer as a result of pressures from big breweries to make sure that microbreweries would eventually disappear and their market share would go back to the big breweries that are contributing to the Liberal Party of Canada?”