I respect that. I obviously don't agree with it.
I think the issue for me on this, MP Vecchio.... I think we've all talked about this and compared then prime minister Harper to this prorogation. MP Simms certainly talked about the prorogation in different Parliaments around the world if you will. We can certainly [Technical difficulty—Editor] for former prime minister Harper proroguing to avoid an election and defeat of his government and so on and so forth.
We can cite all of those examples. We would say that the Prime Minister—and I'm certainly going to get into that when I start my actual speech—prorogued for a completely different set of circumstances and reasons than previously. I know you would say that doesn't really matter because we are here and now.
I'm just trying to keep it real here before I start my speech. Is MP Blaikie on? I'm not sure he is. Do you really feel you're going to hear something different? I'm going to get into what he said here in a second in my speech, but we're all kind of in that Ottawa bubble. We all think we're going to get a different outcome. I'm just trying to find a way forward.
Obviously, Minister Freeland was, I believe, chair of the COVID committee and so on and so forth. Maybe this is the appropriate time to actually start my speech. That's what I wonder. I just wonder if you honestly, or if my Conservative colleagues would—