Mr. Speaker, I want you to know that I will be on topic. I would not want to lose your confidence. Perhaps, Mr. Speaker, you could refrain if I might respectfully suggest from accepting frivolous points of order.
In any kind of speech in this place, one must talk about the broad range of issues as they affect the Canadian taxpayers and the justice system.
We saw a motion in this place on the Reform Party's idea of what justice should be in this country. Reformers think they should have the control over the judges. Of course that would have a tremendous impact I might add on the estimates, on the spending. I would suggest that in the Reform Party's attitude toward justice—and I do not know how many times you want me to mention the word justice but I am quite prepared to do it for the next 10 or 15 minutes just to prove to you that there is indeed justice in what I am trying to say—there is no justice in what the Reform Party is putting forward.
Justice I might add is a subjective perspective depending on your definition of justice. My definition of justice in this country is a parliamentary democracy with a separate judiciary that is not influenced by the kind of nonsense we have seen being perpetrated and which results in a lack of fairness and justice to the Canadian taxpayer.
The reality is that members of the Reform Party would bring a new way of doing justice to the Canadian parliament. One of their ideas was that they thought it was just and the leader of the Reform Party thought it was just which thereby would imply a certain amount of justice, if he were not to occupy Stornoway. He said “If I am elected I will not occupy Stornoway”. Where is the justice?