Madam Chair, usually, I think most people, if they were to describe me, would consider me a pretty mild and a pretty even-keeled fellow, but I have to admit that I find the most recent statements by my honourable colleague across the way, frankly, insulting and I also find them presumptuous and wrong-headed, and I don't say that lightly.
How dare that member ascribe to me what my intentions are, that I or other members here want to go to cabinet? You don't know.
You can speak for yourself and you did. Good for you. You want to be in cabinet? I don't care.
Madam Chair, I've always felt—and I've been mocked by the member opposite before—and I mentioned how much I'm a student of Parliament and I love the parliamentary tradition we have. I've followed it from a very young age. To me the highest honour I have was the one that I got on October 19, 2015, when I became the member of Parliament for Hull—Aylmer, to represent the community in which I have lived for almost 30 years.
So I hope the member will stick to his knitting and not choose to try to speak for other people, and I also find it particularly rich—in an ironic sense—criticisms of he would says is talking out the clock when it was the very same member for two full meetings of this committee—