Mr. Chair, I do not know where to begin with my Bloc colleague.
If a person were to look at Hansard and review his remarks of a few minutes ago I think they would think he was in the U.S. congress. His remarks were more appropriate to being in opposition to what the Americans are doing and to President Bush and the Bush administration than they were in opposition to anything in the Canadian Parliament.
If I heard him correctly, he also said that he did not understand where the Conservative Party was coming from on this issue because the role of opposition was just to oppose. That is not the role of this party and it never has been. We weigh each issue on its own merit and make a decision as to whether we are going to support the government in its initiative. Obviously, there are times when we would do things differently.
If the member were to check the voting records, as I have, he would see that I, as a Reform Party member of Parliament, and then an Canadian Alliance Party member and now a Conservative Party of Canada member, have voted with the government about half of the time in my 10 year history as a member of Parliament. The reason for that is that we weigh each issue individually.
The reality is that we do not oppose for the sake of opposition. The reality is that we should be debating the merits of or the opposition to this particular issue. I respect the member for raising concerns about it.
The member also talked about the testing--