Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech on the budget implementation bill.
As we have mentioned many times, it is a mammoth bill. The Liberals swore that they would never proceed in such a way. They also said that they would not bring in time allocation at every turn. They are on track to beating the previous government's sad record. It is truly pitiful.
I want to talk to my colleague about something I am sure we will agree on: the infrastructure privatization bank.
Does my hon. colleague not agree that time allocation should not have been brought in and that we should have taken the time to properly study this infrastructure privatization bank? Our smaller and rural communities will not have access to this funding, which they desperately need for infrastructure investments. This bank will actually be harmful to Canadians, because they will take on all the risk while large private corporations rake in the profits.
Does the member not agree that this infrastructure privatization scheme does not pass the smell test and that it is a very bad idea?