Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I just want to thank Mr. MacKinnon for taking me back to a time warp at second reading where we just heard the government continue to congratulate itself. Next time you do that, sir, I expect an eggnog by the Christmas tree, because that's the only way I'm celebrating this time of year.
Instead of going back and arguing again about the same things we heard at second reading, this is a motion specifically.... Mr. Chair, with all due respect, I can't believe you've ruled this in order. I've never seen it where a motion gets gutted as effectively as this. Yesterday, we saw the government side close debate. Then they come forward with a complete transformation of Mr. Duvall's motion. I think it is absolutely ridiculous that this was accepted as in order.
If you don't support his motion, it should be voted down, and then you present your own. I think that's the correct way to do it.
You know what? You voted down every single one of his.... Pardon me, we didn't even get a chance to hear his amendments on it. You're going to be doing the same thing anyway. You've already said it's going to be part of the triennial review. Why not just simply go ahead, either with his motion, or if you don't like the way that it's worded, vote it down, and then we can have a proper motion that's more favourable to the government?
This little, sly shuffling of intents of motions, completely, so that the government seems to be snatching victory out of the NDP's mouth, I think, is just a bit.... Actually, we should all be beyond this.