Mr. Speaker, I would be the last person to ignore the Chair consciously and the last person to ignore the Chair when it is occupied by its very distinguished present incumbent. You fill the role admirably in a very real corporeal sense.
However, I would encourage the hon. member who has shown that he has a litigious attitude in areas other than what we are now discussing not to give up hope on the court. He should try right reason, try his arguments and argue the new pluralism and he might find he can win. But it is certainly an incorrect application of the Canadian charter to assume that American judgments in the area of the charter of freedoms are automatically the law of the land here.
We are a different society. I would have thought the great charm of our society is that we are a plural society. We have rejected the melting pot concept of total assimilation. We encourage diversity. We try to build co-operation based on those integral elements that each culture has and this demands a jurisprudence that reflects that.
I rest optimistic that with future education by this House including by the hon. member that the courts will move more in this direction. I do not think they have shown the imagination they could have.