Maybe Mr. Reid took the comment personally, but he is also a part of his caucus, and his caucus has decided that this is their effort at transparency: five out of 168. I can't do the math quickly in my head, but it's not very many.
My point is this. At some point this lesson, this hard lesson, will be learned. I hope my friends enjoy question period this afternoon. I'm sure they will. I'm sure they'll clap and cheer enthusiastically for their leader, defending him enthusiastically as he changes the story on a daily basis as to what actually happened.
The source of this is consistent. That's what's amazing to me. We have another source of it here today, another example of it here today, which is to say if anyone raises a point counter to what the government currently believes on any issue—it doesn't really matter whether it is within the caucus, between parties, from Canadians, from reporters—the consistent theme, the pattern of language is to deny the conversation that is democratic and, I believe, foundational to this country.
So congratulations. Go win their vote. Make another shortcut around democratic debate, and remember the day when this comes back, because it will. I've been here only 10 years, but I've seen it enough to know already.
We'll, of course, have a recorded vote on this, Mr. Chair.