No, Madam Redman is right. I stand corrected on that point and I apologize for the suggestion. I take that back. I've said on a number of occasions, and I stand by this comment, that I have always found her to be a ladylike individual and very professional, so I hope my apology will be accepted, Mr. Chairman.
The fact is that were there cameras here, this action would not stand up very well. It would not look good. It doesn't look good to those of us who are here now seeing that an attempt is being made to ensure that a piece of legislation that is really essential to the conduct of elections and ensuring that rural voters are enfranchised is being hijacked by emotion.
The problem we're faced with now is that we look at the way the motion is being presented...I guess the point I was getting at was to point out that this was done while the Chief Electoral Officer was here as a witness. It was a point of order interrupting testimony to ensure we get it on the order paper before anything else. I don't know, I would have said that was bad form, but that's just my own opinion.
At any rate, we're already at a point now where our discussion of the motion that was presented as being collegial and so on has taken more time than probably the clause-by-clause would have taken, so let me explain what my concern is with regard to going forward with the motion as originally stated. Essentially, if we don't accept it in its unamended form, we have to cause all legislation, any legislation on anything on which there is widespread consensus, to be held up by the Liberal attempt to cause our advertising practices to be examined while theirs are clearly and absolutely kept out of the discussion, and the attempt to manufacture a scandal will take priority over everything else. That's really regrettable.