Senator Gold, the cybersecurity bill in the last Parliament — Bill C-26 — was eight years in the making. The government forced the Senate to pass the bill in three months, only discovering at the final stages that their own massive drafting mistake required a last-minute amendment. The Liberal government then decided to prorogue and then called an election, so the bill died on the Order Paper.

Now this Liberal government is trying to resurrect what is essentially the same highly flawed bill. In a recent media article, a legal expert described Bill C-8 as an “almost verbatim” copy of Bill C-26, saying, “It’s the same bill back from the dead . . . .”

This Liberal government pledged to do politics differently; yet they are the same old Trudeau-era cabinet ministers pushing the same old flawed Trudeau-era legislation, so how can you call this “Canada’s new government” when it’s just the same old same old?

That’s right; the Senate committees do study legislation for weeks, hearing expert witnesses suggest improvements. Yet this Liberal government then still regurgitates the same old legislation. Prorogation and dissolution of Parliament were deliberate choices of this Liberal government. You had six additional months to actually fix this bill. The new bill doesn’t even include an amendment that the Privacy Commissioner of Canada testified as being required. It seems “CEO” Carney prefers a rubber stamp. Either this government values the work of the Senate or it does not — which is it?