Mr. Speaker, I just want to quote both the member for Winnipeg North and of course the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, because they revealed what their actual feelings are about what the government is in the process of doing.
Just last year, the member for Winnipeg North said:
The government, by once again relying on a time allocation motion to get its agenda passed, speaks of incompetence. It speaks of a genuine lack of respect for parliamentary procedure and ultimately for Canadians. It continues to try to prevent members of Parliament from being engaged and representing their constituents on the floor of the House of Commons.
The Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada said this:
Mr. Speaker, the government should be ashamed of itself. How dare it rule the country with such an iron fist?
He went on to say:
The government just invoked time allocation which would seriously restrict debate. It does not care to listen to the concerns of Canadians—
They are both right, and the government is wrong to shut down debate on such an important issue, to refuse to have the debates this evening that the opposition members of Parliament have asked for—