Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend and neighbour from Saanich—Gulf Islands for her thoughtful intervention. I would appreciate sharing research with her on the issue of parliamentary decline, which her comment addressed.
There may be a some Commonwealth country in Africa that has done this more often. There may be some parliamentary democracy that I am unaware of that has done this, and that is the research I want to do. I believe that it may be a parliamentary record in the entire Commonwealth from Westminster to Zimbabwe, but I do not know, because I have not looked at Zimbabwe's record. However, it would not surprise me if we have achieved a record in this place in moving time allocation 100 times to curtail democratic debate.
Canadians should be aghast, they should be ashamed, and they should try to figure out how we can create a new government that would no longer put up with this if we are to be a democracy any longer.