We were all individually elected by a group of people in a city or a village or a town to represent them in this place. There are 308 of us who are tasked with looking after the safety and well-being of our constituents, the people of this country.
It seems to me that we would be better able to do our jobs if we had all the information. Now this may seem to be practised as an “us and them” type of thing, but in matters of public safety--and believe it or not, the NDP is as much about public safety as anybody else--like these lifelines, our bridges in Canada, it is important that we, as parliamentarians, as people who are tasked to take care of these issues, know what we're dealing with, know what people who are better educated than we are in matters of engineering and so forth are saying about our bridges. I think it's important for those of us in this room to know what's going on with those bridges. These bridges have been around a lot longer than some of us have been here. But it is really important to know what has happened so we can plan what is going to happen.
For that reason, I support this motion, and I hope you give consideration and will support it as well, because it is about being able to do our job.