Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his very thorough and serious speech. It was well-researched, as always.
That being said, I do not necessarily agree with his conclusion. Personally, I do not think that the wrongs of some people cancel out the wrongs of others or that the suffering of some cancel out the suffering of others.
There were massive raids. A total of 31,000 apartments and houses were searched and 500 arbitrary arrests were made. It resembled the authoritarian regimes of Chile, Argentina or Greece under the colonels. These police blunders would not have occurred had it not been for the suspension of civil rights and the invoking of the War Measures Act, which the NDP opposed at the time.
Should the federal government not bear some responsibility since the vote took place here in the House?
Those people are at least entitled to an apology.