Elizabeth May: Madam Speaker, it is very difficult to be brief when the government is doing something as outrageous as tabling a 420-page omnibus bill that destroys decades of environmental law, much of it brought in by the previous Conservative prime minister, Brian Mulroney.
I want to quote people who are not able to be characterized as NDP ideologues. Professor emeritus Ned Franks said:
These omnibus budget implementation bills subvert and evade the normal principles of parliamentary review of legislation.
In the National Post, Andrew Coyne , speaking of this travesty, Bill C-38, wrote, “This is not remotely a budget bill, despite its name. The scale and scope are on a level not previously seen or tolerated”—
Hon. Ted Menzies: Madam Speaker, I must suggest that my colleague across the way could perhaps have used her time better in actually asking a question pertinent to the budget implementation act, Bill C-38. That would have been very important.
I would love to have had more time to read into the record all of the quotes from associations and from Canadians who support–