Through you, Madam Chair, thank you for the question, Madam Blaney.
I think it's a very important point. I spent three years as whip and I think the overarching lesson I learned in that period of time was that life is hard and that people go through extraordinarily difficult things. When we pass people in hallways, we have no idea what's happening behind those eyes—the inner world that people are challenged with.
I talk to people who are immunocompromised who say, “I have to represent my constituents. I'm coming in. I don't care that it's putting my health at risk,” or I talk to people and I'm not sure their state of mental health makes them quite ready to return, as they have faced either a major trauma or a life event or a health issue, but they want to represent their constituents, so they come in. As was just indicated by our honourable Bloc colleague, perhaps someone has a family member who's in a state of crisis and who needs them to be home for a particular period of time to be with them to make sure that they get strong, and then they can still do their job.
I think we need tools to be able to address that and I think we've been able to demonstrate that we can use those tools responsibly, as we've demonstrated over the last two months.
Thank you, Madam Chair.