Through you, I think honestly if I could keep this up for a little while longer, he might actually come around. The chairs have wheels, and I'll make the room. If that's the way we'd like to do it, we can go that way.
He's given me a challenge, Mr. Chair, so we'll keep working towards that.
I'm also looking at other things that this committee could be looking at. The steering committee sat there and said no, we want our partisan witch hunt. We want it at the top of the list. And what does it say? I think it says it here, “take priority over the other work of the Committee”. What about legislation? What about the running of this country?
Mr. Chair, through you--and you are a member of Parliament too--do you believe that the great people of Cambridge, the centre of the universe, actually sent you here to talk about a partisan witch hunt, or did they send you here to do legislation, to make the rules and laws of this country better? Do you think they sent you here to listen to the partisanship of this? I don't think so.
I know that the people in Elgin--Middlesex--London, where I come from, didn't do that. They didn't send me here to--and I apologize--through you, Mr. Chair, listen to Mr. Lukiwski for six hours talking about how wrong this is. If they had known they were going to do that to me, they would have kept me home. I think that was the case. It was six and a half hours.