Mr. Speaker, restoring integrity to government is certainly a big job after the experience of the last 13 years of the party opposite.
The federal accountability act is indeed a big document and a comprehensive document. It is the first honest, meaningful step to begin to re-earn the public trust, the public trust that was so shattered from what we learned at the Gomery inquiry. We heard stories of kickbacks, of corruption and of envelopes with thousands of dollars in cash trading hands.
The reason the act is so big is that it requires--