The House of Commons is the elected assembly of the Parliament of Canada. This House does not belong to Mr. Trudeau. It's not his. It's not the government's House. They have been tasked to manage the House. The House is ours. It is Canada's. It is the people of Canada's, the electors. All the time I feel that has been lost as a result—maybe not because of all the people on the other side.... I'm not going to paint everyone with the same brush on the other side, but definitely from a centralized group, they have used every opportunity to show contempt for the House and those in it. That is shocking. I've been on record for that enough.
I'm going to go through a few other things, and then I'm going to cede the floor.
I think it's interesting the government feels it needs to change the Standing Orders to ram some of these things through. We know that the Prime Minister already has the ability, if he chooses, to answer every question in QP, as long as he shows up for AP, answer period, which would be great. It isn't necessarily a QP. Answer period would be great. Let's just start calling it answer period. That would be a great change, actually.
He can answer every question if he chooses. He can stand up. He can pick and choose which members he wants to respond to. One day he might want to answer a question from a kid from the Cariboo who is standing up fighting for softwood—