I'm getting a little bit batty? Three hours of sleep and I'm getting a little batty? Do people normally talk like this? Do normal people act like this? For 10 or 11 hours, over two days, really, who does that? I do.
Normal people don't talk like that. Yes, I am getting a little batty. If I go on, continuing to believe that this discussion paper is going to be as undemocratic and do as much damage to our democracy as I think it's going to do, then I'm probably going to get even battier as time goes on. Do up your seat belt.
On the other hand—and here's the beauty part—you're about to persuade me how wrong I've been, batty and all, and you're going to help me see the light in the way that Mr. Simms tried. Because he didn't have the newest equipment, though, he wasn't quite able to get the interpretation the way it should be. But you, Mr. Graham, have that new decoder ring, and you're going to be able to show all of us who have been worrying and fretting, as it turns out needlessly, about the pesky things like minority rights, fairness, justice, and democracy. I'm about to find out, just like The Globe and Mail, how wrong I've been. Now, Mr. Graham is going to make it crystal clear how wrong we've all been.
I wouldn't be surprised if, at the end of it, I asked for a point of order before Mr. Reid takes the floor so that I can formally apologize for all this battiness, all this throwing around of insults. I'm kind of getting ready. I'll fix my tie. I'll comb my hair. I'll get all gussied up, and I'll go in front of the cameras and beg for forgiveness for misleading Canadians when I had the temerity to suggest that the government House leader's discussion paper was anything other than an absolute gift to Canadian democracy and the way we conduct ourselves here. I have to get ready for that. I'm not used to it, so I'll have to practise a lot.
If that's what happens, I need to be ready.