Mr. Speaker, I rise to participate in this take note debate with some sense of sadness and almost despair about what the ultimate outcome of this debate will be.
I have participated in many debates in the House. We have debated motions and we have debated bills, but let us be clear about what is being debated here today. We, as members of parliament, are being told that we have to debate, in a take note debate, a fundamentally important subject about the future of this country and the future of this hemisphere and this planet. Yet we are being denied the very essence of what it is that we are supposed to be debating.