Mr. Speaker, I listened with interest to the House leader for the governing party. I am a little mystified myself, I must say. I wonder if he could explain to me, first , how we can honestly debate three distinct topics where there might be varying views, particularly when one of them is before a committee that is travelling the country and is having a real problem trying to find a common solution with which most people will agree.
The other issue is in relation to prisoners voting. When we talk about murderers, rapists and child molesters, that is one thing, but what about the fellow who is serving some time for being a little rowdy? It may have been the first time in his life that he got into trouble or the first time he had perhaps one drink too many and was thrown into jail for a few nights. Are we lumping everyone into the same boat?
To try to debate these issues in such a forum, there has to be some other reason for it rather than just trying to find some solution here among us today.