Thank you.
I feel the way that democracy is being curtailed, that we're not being allowed the opportunity to speak, is actually not parliamentary. We see this type of behaviour in the House, and now it's starting to happen more and more in committee as well, Mr. Chair.
I believe it is my duty, or my right and privilege as a member of Parliament who is elected to represent almost 140,000 people in my constituency, that I should have the ability to speak to an amendment that is before the committee which I sit on, and that every member on this committee has that same right. With the actions of this government almost effectively making it a democratic dictatorship, we don't have that ability to do what we're supposed to do.