Mr. Speaker, I hope the member across the way will have an opportunity to participate in this debate and perhaps express some of the concerns that he has already expressed about this particular idea.
It raises another point. Why not have the government focus its attention on getting those systems which are already in place running properly? Passports, social insurance cards, et cetera, are examples of the kinds of things we worry about. If the national ID card were to be as available as social insurance cards are, then we would have a real problem would we not? It would seem to me that the government should get its act together on these other files before it even considers anything like this.