Mr. Martin, if you didn't build a house right and there was an ability to take you to court and have you demonstrate that you built a house wrong, I don't think as a carpenter you would like that. I'm not sure if you are a carpenter, Mr. Martin, but if you're a builder and you don't build right, and you can be taken to court to demonstrate how you did build right, you'd lose a lot of money spending time in court and not building.
In the same manner, if parliamentarians or the Ethics Commissioner have to spend a lot of time in court to explain why they did what they did and it was all kosher, then you're not doing your day job. That's all I'm saying. And you have the uncertainty of what it is we decided when we had that vote. We don't know any more because we have a challenge to some of the people who voted on one side. We don't know whether their vote was valid. What did we decide, and what does that mean to the consequences of that vote?
Subsequent actions were taken based on something being adopted in the House, but we don't know whether that vote is valid because the process is in the court. So we've got to wait until that's sorted out. And then we find out whether that minister's or that parliamentary secretary's vote stands or doesn't stand.
I don't know. It's just the uncertainty that comes to me as a lawyer, saying, come on, let's clean this up. This is a recipe for a lot of confusion and uncertainty, which shouldn't bother me as a lawyer because it's a job for life, but at the same time, it's not good parliamentary practice.