Madam Speaker, the member for Windsor West correctly pointed out in his speech what the complicity is here between the government, the opposition and the premiers of the two provinces.
The reality is that the government knew that this legislation had to be introduced months ago and yet it waited until the very last week of Parliament. It introduced time allocation and closure motions to ram it through when people are paying the least attention. This is very obvious to people on our side of the House and probably obvious to anybody listening to the debates over the last couple of days.
Why does the member think the government had to go this way? Why could it not have at least let the process go through its natural course and have public hearings, as we proposed just yesterday?