Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the member on his election to the House.
We have just come through an election which has triggered the need for us to have a throne speech and a debate, but maybe the starting point is to ask why we had the election. The last Parliament passed a bill setting fixed election dates and it should not have been until October of 2009.
Would the member agree that the last election was totally unnecessary and we should have been here working on behalf of Canadians.