Mr. Speaker, did I use those words? My apologies. I must have gotten carried away. That type of language is not usually even in my thinking. I am genuinely sorry.
All of us must do our job. We must never permit our eagerness to get out of here to supersede the urgency and importance of doing our job and doing it right. I am embarrassed to be part of a parliament that is so eager to get out of this place and go back to the ridings, as important as that is. Do those members have holidays planned? What do they have planned? I do not know.
I do not have anything planned. My plans are to come back here on Sunday night and to be here Monday to Friday. I am going to be here in any event because I have it booked. I have work to do here. I am here to represent the people.
It is absolutely shameful that the members over there are so eager to get out of here that they will not work on a bill for a little longer and perhaps accept some amendments from the opposition that will fix the flaws. Then at the end of the day we could stand up proudly before our children and our grandchildren, before Canadians from coast to coast and say that we did a good job when we were in Ottawa.
Instead the Liberals are going to be hanging their heads in shame and saying “We should not have done that. We should have listened to other heads, but instead ours were totally clouded. They were on the other side and we assumed that they did not know what they were talking about”.
Those Liberals over there have a lot of wisdom, but there is also some wisdom on this side. If we worked together we would get much better legislation on behalf of the Canadian people.