Mr. Speaker, I wonder if the member could pick up on the point in terms of priorities. The government has been in office for a number of years but I will cut it a bit of slack and ask why over the last year the government has been so negligent in bringing forward the legislation. We are talking about hundreds of pages of amendments to the tax legislation. As the member quite correctly pointed out, they are very important tax amendments that could have and should have been made quite a while ago.
If taxation as a policy is important to the government, one would think it would be a higher priority.
Why does the member believe it has taken the government so long to bring forward this piece of legislation? I appreciate that she sits on the finance committee.