Madam Speaker, I am very pleased to speak today on Bill C-55. Although I am not the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport in the House, my speech will be a responsible one, unlike his. In principle, he should be quite familiar with the bill and should have addressed the substance of it. Instead, all he has done is to resort to a kind of political demagoguery in order to attack the work the Bloc Quebecois is doing in the House.
I have no need to be lectured by the hon. member for Chicoutimi--Le Fjord. I have here a list of three pages of statements made by that member when he was on this side of the floor, and took it upon himself to assess the government on the other. I will quote from a few of them. This is a particularly strong one. Quoting the hon. member for Chicoutimi--Le Fjord:
In Quebec, we have been putting up with that for 30 years from the former Prime Minister and the current one.
This was on March 20, 2000 in the House of Commons. Today, we have the hon. member on the other side of the floor.
If we want to see public confidence in politicians restored, all members of this House must have a bit of gumption and a bit of consistency.