Mr. Speaker, surprisingly, this is the second time in two weeks that I am obliged to rise in this House to explain to the great saviours of Canada, to those who want to preserve it at all costs, that they themselves are destroying their own country. It is totally ridiculous.
We are advocating a political option that threatens the existence of Canada in its current form. However, the members of the Bloc Quebecois could never be criticized for failing to respect this country's institutions and the Chair.
We do not have the right, you do not have the right and no one here has the right to threaten the Chair, whoever may occupy it. You, Mr. Speaker, have always had the confidence of this House. We elected you. You the full respect of the government, of the Bloc—as we have said—of the Conservative Party, which is rightly concerned by events here, and of the New Democratic Party, most certainly.
The political parties in this House cannot allow individuals, who, obviously, do not know where they are headed when they make such serious accusations as this against the Chair, to destroy the institution of Parliament.
The best way to destroy a country is to destroy Parliament. We do not want to destroy Canada, we want to rework it and to make a Canada that functions well in partnership with a Quebec that functions well. We do not, however, want to destroy the institutions. They do.
I close by saying that your role, Mr. Speaker, is to protect the right of speech of parliamentarians and not to protect partisanship, which is what these people want you to do.