Mr. Speaker, that is exactly what has happened. The member was there for the filibuster that the parliamentary secretary undertook.
The Liberals do not want to study anything else. They were fixated on pre-studying the BIA. Can they go 18 or 20 months without tabling a budget, and then all of a sudden the budget implementation act has to be pre-studied, even when they are still amending it in the House?
The same parliamentary secretary was pushing for a pre-study at the finance committee while he is tabling amendments to the bill in the House. The Liberals have not even gotten it straight in the House, so why do we not wait until we get it voted on in the House, and if it is the will of the House to approve the BIA and refer it to the committee, then the committee will study it?