Mr. Chair, I listened to my Conservative colleague speaking about the work the Conservative members have done in committee. That has helped me answer a question. I always wondered why there were no Conservative members from Quebec on the Standing Committee on Finance.
I discovered the reason this afternoon when the budgets were crammed down our throats for the creation of a Canada-wide securities commission. The Conservatives' desire to centralize, with the support of the Liberals, led to the voting of supply.
Obviously, if there had been Conservative members from Quebec on the committee, they would have been so uncomfortable that they would have been unable—I hope—to vote with the Conservatives, and would have contradicted their own regime.
I remind members that if a Conservative member from Quebec ever wants to join the Standing Committee on Finance, he or she will be very welcome. For the time being, we do not have one. They felt it was not important enough. I will take note of this result.
The second thing I want to say to the parliamentary secretary is that we worked together on the Standing Committee on Finance when—