Mr. Speaker, as you have mentioned, Standing Order 52(2) allows members to rise on a point of order when they feel it is in Canada's best interest that we debate a subject immediately.
For Canadians the lightning rod that created this urgency was the picture of Captain Patrick Rechner chained in that ammunition dump. That is the lightning rod that has Canadians demanding action. To them it was like that GI dragged through the streets of Somalia for the U.S. citizens.
The Canadian people have started to speak. Polls are asking us as parliamentarians to make-