Mr. Chair, this is really ridiculous. It's character assassination by Mr. Boissonnault.
There were other statements made by Liberal members in this whole thing. That particular manifesto has been banned from being broadcast in New Zealand, not the rest of the world. You have already accomplished more than what you should have in this debate early on. To bring it up at this 23rd hour and expect people to properly debate it I think is just ridiculous, and I think it goes a long way....
We could talk about Mr. Suri being a campaign manager for a Liberal member from Edmonton. We could do all of those things too, but that's not what this is about.
We should not be trying to change what has already happened. It's already in the record. I've been here 15 years, and I've never seen a committee do what Mr. Boissonnault wants to do here, to strike something from Hansard that happened weeks ago.
This is just abhorrent. It is public here now, and I think our comments are going to be spread across a wide spectrum, but I think what we're doing here is totally wrong. We are trying to accomplish something that doesn't need to be done, can't be done and shouldn't be done.