Mr. Speaker, the lack of credibility that the minister presents and the need for shutting down debate comes from a party that moved 471 amendments to the Nisga'a Final Agreement in some attempt to block the efforts and the will, not just of the Nisga'a but of the Canadian people.
The minister also now pretends that he has listened to 15 days of debate and he is going to play judge, jury and executioner as to whether the debate is finished in his view, whether valid points are being raised anymore. This also is coming from a minister in a government that at no time accepts any amendments to any of its legislative pieces, ever. The Conservatives simply sit there and say that what they introduced the first time is good enough.
We now find out that within their own department there used to be a 95% certainty of a Charter challenge for legislation coming from the Government of Canada, and this law and order government is now saying that the threshold for success of a bill to stand a Charter challenge is 5%. So if it even has a whiff of possibility of passing through a Supreme Court challenge, the Conservatives will introduce it. Why? It is for politics, not for policy, not for governing, but for pure politics
The Minister of Public Safety, so-called, does this time and again and then stands up and says he is open to discussion and open to amendments and that he is a very reasonable guy, but his actions are otherwise. The current government's actions are otherwise.
The members of the government do not like the problems of democracy and the inconvenience of debate, but maybe, from time to time, they could have the humility to take the views of the experts and of the members of the opposition and once in a while have the humility to change their legislation to make it better, make it stronger and finally serve Canadians.