Okay, I'll respond to that in three parts as well.
On the first part, I'm opposed to the idea of our looking at ways we would trigger these kinds of things in the future. At this point, I think what we've been directed to do by the House of Commons—and what we should do, as well, at this time—is to deal with what we're doing in the current circumstances. When things return to somewhat normal, we as a committee should then study what we would do in future circumstances. At that point—I would be completely in agreement with you—we should be doing exactly what you've suggested in the first part of your suggestion. I just don't think that now is the time for that.
Having said that, I also recognize that I appear to be in the minority on that. I'm not going to hold up or prevent that from being decided today, if we remove this aspect that I have the most concern about—and that's the second part of your query—this idea that somehow this could be triggered through a majority, or rescinded or not rescinded in that way. That's where I have a real problem, because I see that as a threat to democracy—a very dangerous threat to democracy. I would never allow.... As long as I felt there were enough votes for that to pass, I would never allow it to come to a vote. I'd do everything in my power to ensure that didn't happen, and I think there are other members who feel as strongly as I do about that. We won't be getting anywhere if that's the path we're going down. I don't do that lightly. I only do it because I think this is such a threat to democracy that I couldn't live with myself if I didn't do everything I could possibly do to oppose it.
Then, to your third question, obviously we wouldn't even get to that point, because as long as I feel there's enough support to have a vote that would allow this to be done by a majority, I'll go to the wall on that one. That is how important it is that we protect our democracy from that kind of a threat.
I hope that clarifies where we're at. If we were to somehow divorce these two things, the first one may be able to come to a vote. However, as long as I feel there's any possibility that there's enough support for it to pass, there's no way I will allow the potential for our democracy to be removed from us in that way.
Does that clarify the questions?
I guess the floor is still mine, or—