Mr. Speaker, I find it hard to believe that the member could actually make that speech with a straight face.
The reality is that we have no objection to the government introducing its budget implementation bill. However, we object to the government introducing an 880-page omnibus bill that goes way, way beyond budget implementation.
It throws in a privatization process involving the post office that it could not get through in the last two years under two successive bills. The government knows that it cannot get it through, so it throws it into the budget implementation bill knowing that the Liberals have no choice but to adopt the whole bill.
The government has just thrown a whole hodge-podge of things into this bill to try to force it through on the threat of an election. That is totally unfair.