That is fine, the member can say it is nonsense, but I have my privilege to stand in this House and say what I think just as that member does and I happen to disagree.
I am not in bed with the separatists. Anybody who has been in this Chamber for the last 10 years knows that I find dealing with the separatists to be a very tough situation. I also believe we should understand. If a member makes a remark that suddenly becomes coast to coast front cover headlines when it was a musing thing, not a statement of hurt nor a statement to diminish Canada but a comment, then it is important to take it in the whole context.
In emotional moments in this Chamber, whether we sing O Canada, show the flag five times or a hundred times when our athletes or astronauts come home, it is the privilege in my own view although I defer to your judgment, Mr. Speaker, of all of us to emotionally show excitement and gratitude. On that score, I separate again from the separatists.
At the same time, Mr. Speaker, I want to say to you, and I am totally loyal to your judgment in this, that it is very important that a person not be condemned, hung out to dry, when it was a simple musing comment. In no way, shape or form in my judgment was she stomping on the flag.