Thank you very much.
I appreciate that earlier, Ms. Lattanzio, in her unwillingness to answer my question, said that she would be listening to the interventions of members of this committee and sharing thoughts of her own. She has had the opportunity to listen to interventions from this committee, but I did not hear, in what she said, a clear position on where the Liberals will be voting on this amendment. Now, I don't know whether she wrote her own remarks or if Minister Fraser did the courtesy, but I do not believe for a second that she is speaking as a rogue member who has not consulted with the minister she represents and the Prime Minister she represents.
We learned earlier in media coverage that the Prime Minister's Office and the Minister of Justice were apparently not in line on this issue. This may have led to some of the subsequent cancellations, postponements, extensions and abbreviations of meetings. We are talking about a fundamental altering of not just the Criminal Code but also long-standing religious freedoms in this country. It's the kind of decision that, if it is to exist at all, should be in a stand-alone bill. It was. When it was a stand-alone bill, the Liberals rejected it because they realized it does not belong in a pluralistic country representing people of all faith backgrounds and a House of Commons representing people of all faith backgrounds.
Right now, my request of Ms. Lattanzio, as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice, is to have the courage to state they will be voting for this—if that is in fact their decision—or to have the even greater courage to stand up for religious liberties and vow to reject it.