Madam Speaker, I thank my colleague from Calgary Shepard for his speech, a few words of which he considerately delivered in what we know is his nearly impeccable French.
However, when my colleague said that it is shameful of the Bloc Québécois to support this government's time allocation motion, I would refer him to the speech I delivered earlier this evening, which would help him understand our reasons for supporting this gag order.
My colleague also talked about the centralizing government, and several members, including the member for Carleton, accused the Bloc Québécois of being centralizing. My answer to that is that the Bloc Québécois would be happy to have Quebec's own version of the CRTC so that it could make its own decisions, but until then, we have to try to do our best with what we have, with is the CRTC and federal regulations.
In answer to the question he seemed to be raising, we are not ashamed at all. We—