Mr. Speaker, we certainly do hope there will be a withdrawal of that comment.
Before I ask the usual question, I would like to ask the House leader if she would consider being more generous with allocating time for debate of Bill C-29, the budget implementation bill, than she was with Bill C-26, which she well knows was allocated the minimum amount of time possible. Worth noting is that the House leader's predecessor committed five sitting days to the same stages of the budget implementation bill on this watch. Since she was appointed—