Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for his speech.
I cannot help but respond to the speech given by the Associate Minister of National Defence. He is claiming that the Conservatives suggested those ideas when Paul Martin's government was in office. However, we then had eight years of inaction before we finally started this debate, which, unfortunately, has been subject to time allocation. That is truly shameful.
My colleague was quite right in pointing out the fact that our constructive proposals are all too easily rejected. I would like him to comment on that.