Maybe it's a minute sometimes, and maybe it's a minute and a half, but we show up for question period. We show up to talk to ministers and ask them questions. Maybe you can check with Minister Bennett and Minister Philpott to ask them how important those questions are, or you can ask Minister McKenna about the letter I handed her this week just to keep things rolling.
These are important to us because we're not going to see those ministers in a meeting. It's going to be a meeting a month down the road when they have time to meet with us. Absolutely, question period is a lot more than asking a question. It's when we can come together and talk to each other about important issues. Sometimes I talk to my colleagues about a bill or a private member's bill that they're doing.
We do that at question period, in the lobbies before and after question period, and in the gallery. It is important to know that the more often we're together like that, the more work we can get done. Then, the longer we're in our ridings the better, because we can get out to those remote communities.
This government ran on an agenda of being inclusive, of being open to inspiring people, inspiring parliamentarians by bringing them together. To tell them that they are going to make decisions around procedure without consensus is not inspiring. It's not open and it's not inclusive. I want to make that statement for the record.
I'll pass it to the next person, but—