—and growing poverty. At a time when people are demonstrating and calling for a federal strategy against poverty, we are being asked to table documents relating to the Calgary Declaration. It is an outrage. As far as I am concerned, the Reformers should get all the papers they want to amuse themselves, but in the meantime, the Parliament of Canada should be dealing with more concrete issues.
Let me repeat that we are pleased to sit in this House, even on the back benches, and it is from these seats that we will do our work in a constructive manner.