Mr. Speaker, first of all, I salute and congratulate my colleague from Gatineau.
When I am here in Ottawa I live in Quebec, like many members of Parliament from Quebec. He is my representative, so I always pay close attention to what he says and to the mailings he sends out fairly frequently.
I also want to congratulate him on his new position as Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Treasury Board. As the official opposition's Treasury Board critic, I am happy to know that I will be debating my colleague in the days we have left in the House. We are getting this started off right.
It will soon be my turn to speak and to explain some of our serious concerns about this bill. For this reason, I have a question for the parliamentary secretary. The Senate's 12th proposed amendment is as follows:
(b.1) use any code, moniker or contrived word or phrase in a record in place of the name of any person, corporation, entity, third party or organization;”
This proposed amendment from the Senate is very important. It would mean that the government could not use monikers or codes in communications with others.
I would like to know why the government rejected this amendment, which we think is very important and crucial. I will explain why shortly in my speech.