Madam Speaker, would it not have been wonderful if we could have actually had that debate on Bill C-4? Hopefully we might still be able to get there because of the motion I just moved.
When we think of a committee versus the chamber, the biggest difference is that a committee can sit indefinitely. It can sit around the clock if it wants, but there is a finite amount of time here on the floor of the House of Commons. As we witnessed last year, the Conservatives used that finite amount of time to play a very destructive role on the floor of the House.
I was kind of hopeful that the Conservatives, in particular the leader of the Conservative Party, would have learned something coming out of the last election, which is that Canadians have a higher expectation of more political co-operation on the floor of the House of Commons, especially when we are talking about an important bill that would give 22 million people a tax break.
We have a finite amount of time here, and the Conservatives need to stop playing their political partisan game, because it is at great cost to Canadians.