Mr. Speaker, it is a great pleasure to be back in the House. I am pleased to be able to ask a question.
To answer the hon. member for Winnipeg North, New Democrats are not followers, they are innovators. That is why we want no part of the Liberal Party's marketing campaign. Instead, they are welcome to our ideas.
That said, I have a comment for the hon. member for Compton—Stanstead. We want the Senate abolished because it is fundamentally flawed and has been since birth. One hundred and fifty years ago, one of the criteria for being appointed a senator was to hold property worth $4,000. At the time, that was a huge sum. It made for a very elite institution.
Would the hon. member like to talk about that aspect of elitism and about the birth defect that is impossible to correct without killing the baby?