Excuse me, Madam Chair, but I have the floor and have not finished.
As a Bloc Québécois member who received a million votes, I am here to speak out on behalf of Quebeckers. I would never agree to vote on a clause in a bill that is not in my language or that is imprecise. I made it a question of privilege. I did not ask for apologies; I asked that we adjourn debate so that we could have a properly worded clause to work with. That's really all there is to it.
I asked for a colleague to move that we adjourn so we could take the required action and hold another meeting at which everything was in order. It's easy to apologize afterwards, but had I not intervened, we would have voted on the English version and I would have abstained. When I said that I would have to abstain nobody seemed to take umbrage about it. I felt deeply hurt, Madam Chair.