Oh, I think they are. I'll get to it if you will allow me, Chair. I need just a couple more minutes, if you don't mind. I'm not trying to put you in an awkward position because I think from my perspective, and whether it's the security of my person, my thoughts, my beliefs, my freedom of expression, and even my ability to vote, it's my constitutional right. It's a constitutional right of every Canadian citizen, and through that peaceful assembly, through that ability to protest, and through that ability to choose my government, or to choose to vote against my government, that is a decision I make at the ballot box. The question we're talking about here is a choice that's made on a battlefield, and we can talk about the terms and conditions of defining that, but I think it behooves all of us here to take that into consideration.
When you're willing to put your life on the line to defend those very rights and freedoms I have here, I think it's incumbent upon me as a parliamentarian to protect you from any enemy within who might be creating a situation where you cannot safely do your job to protect my liberties and the freedoms I have here.
That's the point I was trying to make, Mr. Chair. We have every opportunity in Canada to work for a government that we want and to work against a government that we don't want, but we limit that capacity in some way through the laws and the statutes we have in this country. The proposed law that is currently before us is one that I think all parliamentarians should take very seriously in the matter of making sure that the men and women who do serve at our request and on our behalf to keep us free have the protection. This piece of legislation, I think, affords that protection.