Mr. Speaker, I am pleased the New Democrats have not adjourned the House, or attempted to adjourn the House. That is a positive thing.
Next thing is that we have good pieces of legislation. When I say “good”, I should qualify that. This legislation attempts to make changes to nine other pieces of legislation. The government's track record in making changes to legislation that impacts our farmers is not very encouraging. In fact, there are many other things the government could have done to work with a number of the changes that it would put into place through Bill C-18.
The member highlights that in certain areas there are some aspects of the legislation that are positive and would receive fairly decent support from our stakeholders, in particular our farmers. We within the Liberal Party are very grateful for that. However, there are other aspects that are not.
The concern has to be that we have, yet again, this large bill before us that that would change to several pieces of legislation.
Would the member not agree that it would have been far better off had the government done its homework and worked with our different communities and stakeholders to come up with what should have been several pieces of legislation? This way we probably would have had better and easier passage on some of the more positive aspects of Bill C-18.