On some of the stuff I could agree with you, and on some, I don't. Their job is to protect us. When the pages come here to work on the Hill, they already have to know 75% of the members before they come into the House of Commons. When we do our first vote, the Clerk of the House knows the 308 members of Parliament on the first call of the vote. If they have responsibility for security on the Hill, then they should know who they're dealing with.
The attitude of the officer was that he was not just doing his job, but he said he didn't care about the member of Parliament. He didn't care about Parliament. He didn't care about the vote. That attitude has to be looked at by the force, that you don't deal with people in that way. Okay? We're not 9-1-1. We're not terrorists. We're the members of Parliament who have been elected by the people and the citizens of this country to be in the House of Commons and to make laws for our country, and to keep our democracy at its best.
I'll stop here.
I hope you do the right thing and do a good job on it, because even if you bring the leader of the RCMP in, I am sure that when we dealt with it in 2012 the leader knew what was happening, and he didn't have to come here to do his job. When it was done during Bill Blaikie's time, he knew what was happening, and he didn't have to be brought in. I hope he's brought in and he knows what the responsibilities are, and when they take responsibility for coming onto the site of Parliament, they know that they have a job to do.
My privilege and the privilege of all the members who have to go through was violated that day, and that was wrong. This is our privilege.