Mr. Speaker, my comprehension of this motion is extremely sound. What we have is a general statement being made here which says that in the opinion of this House federal legislation should not be amended, and then it gives an example. The broad statement is that federal legislation should not be amended or changed or be subject to any comment at all by the courts.
That is what I was referring to. The issue of equality then came in. The hon. member just said we are all talking about equality here and judges should be treated equally.
It is the kind of simplistic reasoning we listen to across this House every single day. It is difficult to deal with that kind of simplistic reasoning. If we are to say that when judges speak about an issue of law, an interpretation of law, they are on the same par as I am, although I am not a judge and do not understand the interpretation of law in that same way, we are not even understanding what we really mean by equality, by expert opinion, by knowledge gained in a profession.
It is like saying that anybody should be treated equally if they choose to do a gallbladder operation on somebody. The concept of equality is so flawed in the minds of the hon. members across the House that I often wonder if we should even be bothering to debate it.
Then we bring up the issue of my integrity and of right and wrong and morality and of what philosophers have said about courage and integrity and self-control.
Courage is the ability to do the right thing even though it may be unpopular. When we talk about moral values, whose moral values do we speak about? Do we continue to talk of the tyranny of the majority? When we speak about morality, do we speak about Judeo-Christian morality? Do we speak about Islamic morality? Do we speak about human rights? Do we speak about morality of the aboriginal people? What do we mean by morality? Must we always continue to define everything we do based on our own particular religion and wherever we come from?
The concept of morality is a broader one. It is about understanding the need of every human being to be able to realize their potential, to live freely in the way that God created him or her and to have access to everything that God has put on this earth and the people here to make sure they do not put barriers in the way of that. That is morality. That is fundamental morality.