Mr. Speaker, with the greatest of respect, I say to the member opposite, what rubbish. He cannot give me lessons on democracy. He knows full well that this is a country which respects the dignity of individuals, probably to the highest degree of any democracy in the world.
We have the Public Complaints Commission to make sure that our police forces, be they the RCMP or any other police force, do not step out of line. That does not happen in other countries.
We talk about the incident. I was not there when the incident occurred with the demonstrators. However, as a former student, I know what it was like to demonstrate in the late 1960s because I was one of those sixties individuals. That was the era of the protest march. We protested all kinds of things. We tried to elicit a reaction from the police or from the politicians because that is what we did in those days. We sought that type of response. It was a game. We have to allow for the fact that perhaps these students may not have had all the right motives when they engaged in this particular protest.