I'm getting to that. We asked him then, obviously you must do extra weeks, and so on and forth. He said, yes we do. I said, that's interesting. Because I'll be quite honest with you, I'm not saying we get Mondays off, I'm just saying that if you look at Fridays themselves for a day to travel like we do, and ask me would I be willing to say yes to an extra week or two or three weeks around the year, I think I would, but I want to be greeted by a serious discussion about this.
I don't want Fridays off for the sake of a having a day off. I think it is an absolutely insincere argument to my own. It is easy and it's just not fair. Canadians do work on Fridays. Canadians go to work at nine o'clock in the morning. We go to work at 10. Canadians work in January. We don't, according to this logic. Canadians work in September and we don't. Canadians work in the summer and we don't. All that I've just said to you is false because we work.
Every other parliament in the world now acknowledges what it is like to work in your constituency, to be that direct representative. Earlier today, Mr. Johns' colleague, Randall Garrison, actually came back at me about working on Fridays with what was probably the most legitimate of all the arguments I've heard. His reasoning was this: because I work long distance, I would rather work on the Fridays and not have those two or three weeks added on, so I get a full week in the riding. That's an intelligent discussion. That's a valid point.