No. You interrupted me, Mr. Butt. I didn't go looking for a fight, but you know, I'm here.
I still have a great deal of difficulty with the notion that 40% of the vote gets you 100% of the power. That's why we strongly believe in proportional representation, but I won't go on.
That's as far as I can go there, Chair. I see you getting ready and rightly so. I get it. I have to colour within the lines. That's fair enough.
Nonetheless, you would think a little humility from a majority government with less than 40% of the vote would not necessarily be out of order.
Not only that. At its core, it's just so darn un-Canadian. We don't use that term a lot, but there are certain Canadian values that we stand by and that we're proud of and that we think identify us. One of them is our sense of fairness. That's an important word to Canadians, that no matter what the circumstance, if there's a decision to be made, especially if it impacts more than the people who are doing the debating, that there be some fairness to that process. That's all we're trying to bring here, just an element of fairness. If the government would indicate that they're interested in x number of hearings outside the safety and security of the Ottawa bubble, we'd consider that, and we would consider that a starting point for negotiations.