Mr. Speaker, I will try this again. Earlier, I asked the minister a question, but he did not answer it.
If the government had chosen to send the bill to committee before second reading, we could have used the same number of hours of debate but avoided this confrontation and this situation, which is undermining the role of Parliament. Those are the rules of the House. That would have been far more respectful of the parliamentary process.
Why did the government choose to impose time allocation instead of sending the bill to committee before second reading?