Mr. Speaker, I have to comment because the member for Elk Island referred to what we are doing as bringing another group of people into the circle.
When the circle is Canadian society and we are talking about people who have for too long lived in the shadows and on the fringes of society, does the member not believe that bringing more people into the light and into the circle of Canadian society would be positive, not negative? Does he not think that bringing people into the circle of the Canadian family would strengthen society, strengthen Canada, and would allow people to live full and complete lives as accepted members of society, rather than being seen as pariah and somehow outside the mainstream?