Mr. Speaker, I acknowledge my friend, the parliamentary secretary who said this morning in committee that the Liberals feel that they are right to impose a gag order, cut short debate, fail to send the bill to committee and short-circuit all the work of Parliament because they indicated on the first page of their platform that they intended to introduce a bill on free trade within Canada.
For the Liberals, the fact that there is a line about this in their platform and that there was an election that delivered them a minority is enough to diminish the importance of work in the House to improve the bill. What other items in the Liberal platform are so important that the Liberals could plan to pass them under a gag order after only a few weeks of sittings and thereby deny democracy?
I would like my colleague to give me a list of what other items in their platform are so important so that we know what to expect in the coming months.