Sure. Thank you for the question.
The time for half measures is over. We didn't come here on bended knee to beg for $5.1 billion or for half measures. What we need is for parliamentarians around the room to live up to the obligations they have as parliamentarians and as Canadians.
We've come here for three decades. We've done deals with the Conservative government in Charlottetown. We've done them with the Liberal government. We try our best. This whole gang behind me, many of them have been around a long time, come to Parliament expecting parliamentarians to live up to their responsibilities.
What message are you sending to those young kids who are in gangs in Edmonton and Winnipeg and around the country if you can't live up to your responsibilities that you make in public forums? That's the issue in this bill.
The politics aside, it's not about the Conservative Party or the Liberal Party. It's not about Paul Martin. It's about living up to obligations that have been negotiated with people in a political process, which is the marvel of the world.
To just backslide on this now is irresponsible and a failure of this Parliament to live up to its obligations, and it needs to do so.