Mr. Speaker, this gives me an opportunity to rail a little bit about the Trudeau Sr.'s use of the charter to essentially Americanize our system and to remove some of the supremacy of Parliament. I do not believe the trust that was given to those members of Parliament at that time was honoured because, essentially, the supremacy of Parliament when it comes to certain elements of law-making is no longer supreme. I accept that the Supreme Court exists and can rule on the constitutionality of said laws under the charter. I respect that.
What I will also say is that it means more so than ever that over matters under our own jurisdiction, specifically a production order on the government, that the government should not believe that it exists upon itself. In our system it is brought from us, the legislative branch, to the executive branch. They are tied at the hip for a reason. A government cannot start spending without honouring the Parliament as a whole around it.
I think that we have to show that when we do a production order, we mean business. The government should respect that, absolutely, along the lines of supremacy of Parliament. Absolutely, in our business, this is something the government should believe is sacrosanct. I encourage all members of this place to tell the government to start acting like it.