—then we could still get the rest of the business done. We still have time. This can be pulled out of the fire.
We're here until 1 o'clock. I guarantee you, unless there's a change, we are here until 1 o'clock. This is just me, and there are more of us. So the government either gives its head a shake and somebody up in the PMO realizes that this is a disaster in the making and that they had better find a way in the next 36 minutes to stand down, or, if they have to, just crassly step down and consider it a bit of a hit and move on. If they don't do that, we're going to walk out of here at 1 o'clock and only two things will have happened: one, nothing, and two, there will be the evidence that the government is prepared to ram through changes to the way we make laws because they believe doing so gives them a partisan benefit. How disgraceful is that? How disgraceful is it to make a change in the way we make laws so you can have a partisan benefit?
At the end of the day, Chair, the government has the right to do that because it does have a majority. We are not suggesting it does not have the right to govern; it does, but there are ways that we govern with rules and procedures and checks and balances. That is the reason we have something called the official opposition, the loyal opposition, to hold the government to account but is loyal to the country and to the Constitution—