Mr. Speaker, this has been a source of such grief. I do not think there is a member in this place who has not heard from distraught seniors about the unintended consequences of their decision to accept the CERB and then be punished in the way they have been punished. I regret that it took legislation to fix this mistake.
However, I want to make the point I have been trying to make throughout the morning about how quickly this is going through and share this with perhaps the newer members who are not as used to seeing how often members of Parliament pass billions of dollars of spending without a chance to look at that at all. My first time here, actually it was in Centre Block, there was a Speech from the Throne under the Harper government. I walked down to the Senate chambers to listen to the speech. I was waiting for a hip replacement in those days, so I walked back slowly. By the time I got back to the House, this entire place, through unanimous consent, had deemed that over $5 billion of spending had been studied by committee, had been reviewed and we all said we should spend the money. It is not uncommon.
I think this will get studied at committee, so I want to ask if this is uncommon in the experience of the parliamentary secretary.