Thank you, Chair.
I just wanted to correct Mr. Barrett. My—quote, unquote—“scoff” that he mentioned was definitely not about respect for Justice Turpel-Lafond. I appreciate all of the great work that she's done. In fact, my reaction to his wording was really about his feigned indignation and the reason that we're here today.
Most definitely this government has committed to do politics differently, and I've witnessed it happen in this justice committee as we've put forward this very open, merit-based process of Supreme Court appointments. I don't think that, as Liberal members, we have any lessons to learn from the Conservatives, who have had very secretive ways in which they appoint their senators, for example, and who've been on the record spewing hate speech and have just had their behaviour condemned.
As I completely understand that this is an important conversation that we need to have, I don't think, again, that this is the right place for that conversation to occur, and I look forward to voting against this.