Thank you.
I have not taken the time to welcome Monsieur Garon as a substitute. I feel his presence is really helpful, especially his good humour.
I'm glad that you clarified that smiling is not against the rules here, but the question is whether someone snickered. I think snickering invokes something that is more mean-spirited than smiling, and I did not hear snickering from Monsieur Garon. I saw a smile, and I thought it was helping to bring us together, but I did not hear snickering. If he did not snicker, and I haven't seen anyone else saying they snickered, then it does raise the question whether the Conservatives are continuing to hallucinate, and it feels like we're in this very strange hallucination, or if they are putting forward falsehoods, which would undermine our credibility as parliamentarians in having it on the record.
I would like to clarify, for people who will study this in school 100 years from now, what happened to Canadian democracy. People could still smile, but people weren't necessarily snickering.