Oh, no? Well, I am telling the members opposite to dial the following number: area code (613) 524-2828. Ask the people at the St-Isidore co-operative. They will tell you: farm products now cost 20 per cent more in my riding because of the Bloc's actions today, because of the Bloc members' failure to fulfil their public duty.
And if that was not enough, we are sitting in the House of Commons today. Of course all of us work full time in this business. If we were not here doing this, presumably we would be home meeting with our constituents. So either way we would be working.
In order to keep the House of Commons sitting today it costs the taxpayers of Canada $17,125 an hour more than what it normally costs. I repeat, $17,125 an hour more. Tomorrow if we sit, it will be more like $25,000 an hour. I say to the MPs across, if by some misfortune, some unlikely proposition they were to refuse unanimous consent later on today to do third reading of this bill-