No, actually it's a point of privilege, and I thank you for the floor.
I notice we have about five minutes. I'd like to take just 60 seconds of it, if I could.
This has been a pretty intense hearing. I thought maybe I would like to put a small bit of humour into where we are, believe it or not. Let's see if I achieve it.
It's under the category of one of the greatest put-downs that was ever thrown back to me from across the floor from a colleague.
I'm on one of my big rants, Chair, and you've been around long enough with me that you know what they're like. We saw one of them today. I was going on and on, and my theme in it all was 30,000 feet. I kept saying, “If we look at this from 30,000 feet” and then I would go and do my attack, and further I'd say, “You know, never mind all these details, when you look at this from 30,000 feet” and I went on and on and on like this about the 30,000 feet, as loudly as I could, as I do. The room was dead quiet and Laurie Hawn, a former Conservative MP who served here, asked for the floor.
What triggered this memory was either the general or Mr. Finn answering a question about 50,000 feet, or somebody making a reference to 50,000 feet.
After I'd finished doing this whole rant, wrapped around what you really see from 30,000 feet in terms of what's going on, Laurie Hawn takes the floor—dead quiet—and he says, “I'm a former fighter pilot. You know what you see at 30,000 feet? Nothing. Just like the value of the arguments we just heard.”