Mr. Speaker, I too want to report to you what happened to me this morning. I have an office in the Wellington Building as well. When I arrived this morning there was of course a picket line outside the door. I spoke to the picket captain and he said that if I want I can go into the building, they were not inhibiting members of parliament whatsoever in terms of going into the building.
I declined of course to cross the picket line and chatted some more with them. He once again repeated the offer that I could proceed into the building if I wished and once again I declined.
A similar thing happened to many other colleagues of mine, including my colleague from Beauséjour—Petitcodiac. Once again she was made the offer to enter the building if she wanted to in a very polite way. We had no problems whatsoever with the people who were picketing. They were very polite to us and offered access to the building if we wanted to as members of parliament. I think Mr. Speaker should know that while deliberating on the issue.