Thank you, again, to the member for yielding the floor to me.
I just want to interject here for a minute because I think this is an interesting debate around QP. I am quite astounded about QP, because what you have is this. You ask a question and you have an answer. Now, I come from the provincial parliament in my previous days and often we joke about this, that question period is not really a place where you get answers. It's a place to just ask questions. And you see it play out, for the most part, here in the House of Commons as well.
What astounds me is this. You actually have government members who get up to ask “lob” questions, softball questions, and then the cabinet ministers inevitably always thank the members profusely for how hard they work and for the question that they've asked, and then proceed to read out the answer to the exact question they knew would be asked.
I always sit there, and I think, really? Is this a best use of our time in terms of accountability? Surely the government backbench MPs can walk up to a cabinet minister and say, “Hey, on this issue, I have some thoughts and my constituents have these views,” and share those thoughts with each other. Often the answer is just the message box. I'm sure that they all got it, and I'm sure that they don't need to just read it in the House again for everybody to enjoy, and then to compliment each other about what a great job they're doing. That to me is quite something, and I'm quite taken aback by that.