Mr. Speaker, I commend my colleague for a very good speech.
I have often wondered about these same things, how we can possibly detach ourselves from any anchor in our society. That has happened to a great extent.
While I am also a Christian believer, one who believes in the Scriptures and the teaching of the Bible and tries to the best of my ability to follow those instructions given and to worship God and lead my family in that, I have a very serious and practical question. It is one with which I have battled.
When it comes to matters of faith belief we ought to be in a mode of persuasion and not of coercion. I am aware that to a degree when one gives an oath if one does not want to minimize the meaning of it it has to be one that people can freely respond to in sincerity. I think of the oath we take in becoming members of parliament. I do not want to cast any aspersions against any of my colleagues here but there were some members of the House whom I do not really see how they could in sincerity give that pledge and that oath. How do we balance the coercion and the temptation to insincerity in giving the oath with actually having the oath in place as he suggests?