Madam Speaker, my thanks to my colleague, the hon. parliamentary secretary, for acknowledging that it is the NDP that has done the heavy lifting, not just on this motion but on this whole issue. I want to assure him that if at some point governing becomes simply too difficult for his party, we are prepared to take over at a moment's notice.
I see he is talking to his friend. Perhaps he can help me square this circle. The part of his speech that I was particularly interested in was the part that outlined how simple this bill is. It is merely a few lines and addresses a major flaw in the way the government has rolled out pandemic supports. This is an issue the NDP has been raising for over a year. With a solution that is so simple and so elegant, how did it take an entire year or more to get to this place? Why are we rushing at this moment to get this through, when the government had so much time to fix this problem from the very start or to avoid the problem altogether?