That got the heavy sigh. You're right. That's what it should be: a heavy sigh.
To continue:
Whatever short-term advantage these and other ruses may have yielded them, they came with a price, and that price is very simple: as they are not to be trusted, so they are not, in fact, trusted.
Circle the stain. Damage the brand. How could you hurt the Liberal brand more than by having all these influential entities calling you all these awful undemocratic names? The biggest problem for the government backbenchers is that the criticisms are true, they are warranted, and they are justified, and your government is doing nothing to get you out of this mess.
They had a week to come up with a strategy. When they didn't use that time, the chair gave them another two days. They still did nothing except, to the best of my knowledge, one relatively brief meeting with the House leaders, and that was it—kaput. We came back here yesterday at four o'clock, picked up where we had left off, and went until midnight. We started again at 9 o'clock this morning. Nothing is moving out there.
I say to the government backbenches: we here on the opposition benches have more than enough fuel to keep this fire going for a very long time. It would seem that by the time your government figures out what they're going to do.... They've done the math, and you have such an overwhelming majority that they really can afford to lose a couple of handfuls of you. It doesn't even affect the majority government. Nobody ever believes they're one of those who's being thrown overboard, but I have to tell you that if I were a Liberal member of PROC right now, I'd be reaching for my life jacket just in case.
Chair, that would be the end of that article.