Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for his rant.
What we are trying to do is legislate in an area that is very important. My colleague, the member for Gatineau, said this in her opening speech, when we first debated this bill; and of course we did debate the bill. To suggest that members are being muzzled is wholly inaccurate. Members are here speaking. No one is being muzzled.
Here is what the member for Gatineau said. “I think that the minister wants as many members as possible to support his bill”. She is right.
“I therefore hope that he will be open to allowing us to study this aspect [of the bill very] carefully”. We are not studying it here.
She went on to say, “We will have some serious arguments to make in committee about these aspects of the bill”; so let us get it to committee. We are not studying it. We are jawing about it. Let us move it to committee and actually get down to the nitty-gritty of getting the bill right.