Mr. Speaker, my colleague's comments were obviously from a very well prepared speech by the Department of Foreign Affairs.
I want to draw something to the attention of my hon. colleagues in the House. I am sure the Bloc members picked up on this but I am curious if my Conservative colleagues picked up on this, because it kind of just snuck in there a few times. I just want to emphasize what my colleague from Ottawa South said a few times. He said that the legislation merely sanctions what we already did on December 12, 2003. We really do not need this legislation because we have already done it.
What the heck are we doing here? Are we here to rubber-stamp what the government does? Is that what we are doing here? I can tell members that anybody who supports this bill is rubber-stamping the government overriding Parliament by not bringing this before Parliament before it did it.
How much will this cost Canadian taxpayers? No one has said how much this will cost Canadian taxpayers but the Liberals have gone ahead and done it. All we are here to do is to tell them that they have done a good job and that we will pass the bill because they think it is right. That just does not cut it.
The whole process of Parliament is debating legislation before we proceed. That is the issue. What does my colleague have to say about that?