Mr. Chairman, I have sat in this House for a few years now and what is going on now is supposed to be what we are all about, which is consensus government. The very important part of the system is that we have standing committees. The standing committees pay a very important role. Sometimes they make mistakes like they did with me yesterday, but I forgive them when they do. However, this is not much different. The Minister was told it was deferred but he had better come up with substantiation as to why he wants it. The same kind of principles are going on here. We are not a rubber stamp Assembly.
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I think it is very important that we observe that principle. If our consensus system is going to go, we do not simply sit here to rubber stamp what Ministers want to do. I see this vote as not much different to what happened yesterday when the Minister came forward and said "you had better substantiate this better." For that reason I will be supporting this motion of the Standing Committee on Finance to delete.
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