I hear you, Mr. Bittle, but here's how I'm looking at it—and I could be wrong. I'm looking at this politically and thinking that if this committee is still sitting two days from now around the clock, it'll have some 'splainin' to do. I don't think the Conservative position right now is tenable with the public, especially if we're willing to give them all the time in the world to say what they want. If they decide that they're going to try to make this a repeat of what we did with Bill C-23, they're missing one thing: The angels aren't on their side.
If they want to be seen defending keeping this committee and all its operations going for 24 hours a day, day after day, to stop us from voting, I have a hunch there are going to be a few people out in the public who are not going to be buying that argument. That's my bet. My political bet is that they can't sustain that. The reason we were able to sustain it with Bill C-23 was that we were on the side of the angels. What they were doing was so wrong, and the public knew it. When we went out to the public, my office was getting emails and texts saying, “Go get 'em.”
How many do you think they're going get for doing nothing but preventing us from voting? My political calculation is that we can withstand that better than they can.