Mr. Speaker, it is interesting to see the Liberals and the Conservatives pointing fingers back and forth, one saying “It took you five years and you did not do anything” and the other saying “It took you seven years”. The reality is that both parties are at fault for running pretty shoddy administrations.
Now we have this 1,000-page brick, and the Conservatives have invoked closure. We have a history of the government screwing up legislation. It has brought forward legislation and botched it badly. We saw that with refugees. We saw that with veterans. It brings forward these bills, invokes closure, and then screws it up. In fact, all Canadians pay for the cleanup costs and having to revise legislation to which it did not give adequate time in the House in the first place.
My question is very simple. How do we know, since for the 34th time Conservatives have invoked closure, that they got it right this time, when they have screwed it up so many other times?