Thanks.
It's important for everyone to have some sense of that schedule, so that's appreciated.
Let's go back to the idea of being family friendly and how they said that we have to get rid of the Fridays. That first attempt was shot down. It's being brought back in this proposal under some other kind of cover, which is that somehow we're going to modernize Parliament. That's the new buzzword or buzz phrase that's being used.
I talked about that earlier. I talked about the Prime Minister as a kind of a pull-doll. He's got his buzz phrases that he says, and they all sound pretty, and that's about all he has. He doesn't really have anything substantive to offer and he doesn't really offer any action. It's just like that again—“we're going to modernize Parliament”. What the heck...? Does getting rid of Fridays modernize Parliament? Sorry, but I don't see modernizing Parliament by getting rid of Fridays, but that's the latest excuse.
It just seems like there's a real desire to get rid of the Fridays. Frankly, I think it's to get rid of that one question period every week, that 20% of the question periods and that 20% of accountability to Canadians. It's the same thing with the Prime Minister's question period; it's somehow put out there as modernizing Parliament that they're going to make the Prime Minister answer all these questions one day a week.
Well, as he proved on Wednesday of this week, he can do that now and still show up on the other days. We didn't see much of that this week as far as the other days go, but he could still do that. I think the effort here is to put this in Standing Orders so that it's cover for him to say that he really doesn't have to come in on the other days and he's only going to be accountable once a week. That seems, again, like less accountability for the Prime Minister, less of those pull-my-string phrases to memorize so that he can answer your questions in question period.
Fair enough. That's where we are. We're at that point where—