The Ford government.

The Ford government—and it’s got a great track record.

But the “notwithstanding” clause, the greenbelt reversal, the urban boundaries reversal, and now you’re trying to legalize your own mismanagement and bad faith and who knows what else. You’re trying to head the RCMP off at the pass on this one—really.

You’re going to vote in favour of this; I understand this. But if you think about it, why don’t you let the Legislature do its job? If the Ontario Place lease is such a good thing, if it’s going to revitalize the province for the next 95 years, release the details. We’ll all be so happy. Not a made-up business case—release the details of the lease. Release the details of the lease. It would make us so happy. If people are so in favour of this legislation, hold committee hearings. Do you know what? You’re not even going to have to spend money on travel. I’m sure if you hold them here, they’ll come to you. They will come to you.

Part of the reason for why they’re doing a shortcut here—I believe there is some legal action already started, and this legislation is retroactive. So people who are trying to do the right thing, they’re cutting them off at the pass before they even get there. And everyone is so happy on the government side. They’ll go home and be so proud of this.

I’ve got a challenge. I’ve got a challenge. This little thing I read—you know when you have political ads? Would you buy a car, a refrigerator, a house or anything else if it said, “This contract prohibits lawsuits against the government or remedies with respect to anything done under the act, including government misrepresentation, misconduct, misfeasance, bad faith, breach of trust or breach of fiduciary obligation”? I guarantee you would never, ever, ever deal with a company who did that—ever—and yet this government is passing legislation like that. I challenge all the members on the other side to put that at the bottom of your political ads. I challenge you. I challenge you to do that and see how well it works.

Now, you’re hoping that no one will ever remember this, that you’re passing laws to break laws, but it’s our job as the official opposition to actually hold the government to account, and that’s what we’re doing.

And for the members who I am sure aren’t actually on the other side and who aren’t actually in favour of this—they’re just going along with the flow, hoping that they don’t get tagged with this bad-faith breach of trust, but they just might. You just might. Some of you will. And if something goes wrong, the people who came up with this idea are not going to have your backs. You’re going to be all on your own. So in order to give you a bit more time to think about that, I would like to amend the amendment and say that the division bells shall be one hour at the end of the motion.