Madam Speaker, for a party that came here promising to improve decorum in the House, it is remarkable that it does not want to show me respect. I did not heckle or yell at those members when they were debating. I sat here and listened to their comments. Why do they not want to show any respect for anyone else's point of view?
I think we all have to listen. All of us can learn from listening to other points of view. I think the government and all members have to do that more often. We need to listen carefully to other points of view and consider them. I certainly do and I think my colleagues across the way ought to do that, but they are not interested in hearing other points of view.
They know that there has been a lot of debate on this issue. In fact, I wonder how many other issues over the past 10 years on which we have had as much discussion, as much consideration and as much debate in the House of Commons as we have had on this issue of firearms. When they say that there has been no discussion, no consideration or that they have not had enough of a chance to have their say, we are hearing the same arguments over and over.
What are they bringing to the discussion that is new? What new information are they offering to Canadians? What new policy are they offering Canadians? I suggest they are offering nothing, which is why Canadians reject them over and over and will keep doing so.
I think that in due course, and who knows when, Canadians will decide to change the government, which happens every once in a while, but I am convinced that unless there is a dramatic transformation in the Alliance Party, it will not be the party that forms the government whenever this government is replaced. It will be somebody else. Sooner or later we will be gone but there is no doubt in my mind that it will not be that party replacing us. Members of the Alliance Party have failed to comprehend the views and values of the broad range of Canadians. They have failed to open their minds to those points of views and concerns.