Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his intervention on this opposition day motion, including the issue of the definition of marriage. It is very helpful that he has reminded the House of some of the important history.
I personally have done some research in the last couple of years on the whole discussion of court made law. It does raise the whole aspect and the question of whether Parliament in fact is the highest court in the land.
We understand it is Parliament that does these things but even the Supreme Court of Canada has defined what is a free and democratic society and has laid out in its definition of what constitutes a free and democratic society elements which would encompass virtually every interest group in society. It leaves it so fuzzy that we could make an argument, like we do with regard to the Sharpe case on artistic merit and discrimination against a group because marriage cannot be applied to it. There is all this fuzziness and vagueness.
I would like the member's comments on this whole concept of court made law and whether Parliament is the highest court in the land.