That's wonderful. I was beginning to give up hope that I would get a chance to take the floor today, and I'm glad I get the chance.
I'm glad Mr. Cooper has finished his filibuster and is finished, hopefully, delaying getting to clause-by-clause, which was scheduled today for our committee.
Our time is precious. It hasn't felt that way for the last almost two hours, but I feel like my time is precious. I don't know about Mr. Cooper, but I see him smiling over there. I'm sure he doesn't mind wasting the committee's time with long, arduous filibusters that we all have to listen to while witnesses are sitting here painfully waiting to get on to the clause-by-clause analysis.
As I said in one of my points of order, which was probably not exactly in the Standing Orders, but at least I got to make a small interjection to give Mr. Cooper a chance to sip his coffee.... The Conservatives say they want an election. They want an election right now. They want an election tomorrow. They want an election yesterday. What's interesting is that Bill C-65 deals with a whole bunch of things that Conservatives, even though they want an election, don't want to deal with. They don't want to deal with the fact that the very thing they keep pointing to is in an amendment the NDP put forward to remove the fixed election date and revert it back to the way it was before.