Mr. Speaker, I thank the member for all his hard work on this file and all the work he does here in Parliament. He is a real example to all of us.
Independent officers of Parliament are an essential democratic tool now. Really, I do not think we would find a single Parliament in the world that does not have one of these officers in place, and in fact, a good number of them. They reassure the public. We have all our partisan squabbling like what we are hearing here today and every day, but when the public looks at these reports, when they hear them reported on the news, they say, “There is somebody I can have confidence in.” Sometimes the rulings favour the government and sometimes they do not, and that is what an independent adjudicator is supposed to do.
Politics is something people do not have a lot of faith in these days, and the more we can do to buttress our Parliament, the better.