Thank you for that reminder, Madam Speaker.
What is more important is not how many opposition members are speaking in the House, but how many Liberals are listening.
I can remind the House of a lady from the United States who broke the laws in California. She came into my area and claimed refugee status. How can American criminals claim refugee status in Canada?
I asked for the information on her. I asked whether she was kicked out or whether she was kept here. Is she worth keeping? If she is, then tell us. If she is not and we want her out, then tell us. Guess what? That happens to be a matter of privacy too.
We do not know today whether that person lives in this country. Members over there shake their heads because they do not understand what I am talking about. It is far easier in this country, under the current government, to keep people like that fin our country, in particular drug selling, rip-off artists like Montenegro, than to stand to be accounted for, to stand to say “That is wrong. It should be moved out”.
I might remind government members that we just finished one of many anti-drug rallies in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Well over 900 people attended. George Chuvalo spoke at the rally. He has lost three sons to heroin. All of the people who attended agreed that non-citizens who sell drugs to our kids should be booted out of this country, without any right of appeal. Not only does the board not do that, it does not even tell us. It hides under privacy laws. It does not even tell us whether they stay in Canada.
When I come into the House and look at Bill C-54, which talks about privacy, I say privacy be damned. The system has many flaws in it and the board does not understand.
In my final comment I will say that it would be a whole lot more worthwhile to be down here talking if there were as many people sitting across there as there are listening up there and on television.