Mr. Speaker, I agree with the comments. It is interesting. I was listening to the U.S. president in his address to the nation the other night. He got quite a round of applause from congress when he talked about republicans and democrats working together.
On issues like this or any other issues it would be a good idea in the House for all parties, not just opposition parties but all parties, to sit and try to work things out rather than get into the partisanship that exists. That is one of the problems with the House, quite frankly. If the Prime Minister and cabinet want something done it reverberates through the backbench and we know that when we meet here on Tuesday night to vote we will lose. We all know this amendment will go through. There is not a snowball's chance that it will not make it.
Somewhere along the line when the House finally goes through the metamorphosis it is trying to get through we will one day have less partisanship and start debating and deciding on issues on the basis of what the people in Canada want, not what the party in power wants.