Mr. Speaker, let me suggest to the member what the facts are here. During the election campaign, the Prime Minister made a promise, very simply, to reopen the debate. It was certainly attractive to the audience.
We now have a motion before us that calls on the government to introduce legislation. If the motion fails, the government does not have to introduce the legislation. That is what it says. I have asked about this many times today, saying to just table the legislation, but the fact is that the government cannot introduce legislation that would be constitutional. It refuses to invoke the notwithstanding clause, so it cannot get there from here.
Maybe the idea is this. Why does the Prime Minister actually want this motion to fail? Why have three members from his caucus come to me in the last 24 hours to ask me if I know that the Prime Minister's Office is against the motion and that it has to fail? The idea is that the Conservatives do not want this to pass, because they do not want to have to be embarrassed by not being able to put forward a piece of legislation. What does the member--