Mr. Speaker, I never said I was voting against it. In fact, I acknowledged the parts of the bill that law enforcement officials want while cautioning the problem with not acknowledging the civil liberties concerns raised by the bill.
Again, if there is the urgency to this that the member suggests, I would question why this bill is numbered Bill C-22. The government could have presented the bill at any point in the last year, so the idea that we are holding it up when the Liberal government waited so long to introduce it is a weird accusation that I do not think holds water.