Madam Speaker, I am well aware of what the member is talking about concerning the guidelines and the safety nets that the government has set out for itself in the operation of how it handles the taxpayers' money. On the surface that looks pretty good.
The difference between the government and the institutions that are going to be affected by Bill C-57 is that under this bill, when banks and financial institutions and insurance companies fail to abide by the rules of the game in their operation, they are subject to very heavy penalities because of the regulation. They are subject to being charged with criminal activity.
The government has made, and may continue to make, all the rules of operation of how it spends taxpayers' money that it wants and it all sounds good. The difference is when the Liberals do not live by the rules, when they break their own guidelines, when they break their own regulations, they set themselves up while they are in office as the judge and jury of their own misdeeds. We know what the outcome of that is, just about zero penality.
That is the difference between what the Liberal government does within the guidelines it sets and what happens when it breaks its own guidelines as opposed to the regulations laid out in Bill C-57. The member knows that very well.