Mr. Speaker, it is the Deputy Prime Minister who is saying that the agreement he is negotiating would allow either country to “turn back refugee claimants at the border”.
The problem is that when we try to engage in responsible, thoughtful debate in the House, what we simply get from the government is scaremongering, labelling, epithets and things that are totally out of line in a respectful parliamentary democracy. I ask the Deputy Prime Minister, when will the government put an end to such nonsense?