Madam Speaker, I must say that I have my own tissues, but I appreciate the gesture.
I can assure the member that I am very much familiar with opposition tactics and aware of what is taking place in our standing committees. The member himself raised issues and concerns about a wide variety of different issues that the standing committees could be dealing with, and I concur with those thoughts.
Where we might differ is that the member seems to be of the opinion that no matter what, the government has to respond to what has been mentioned on a few occasions today as the tyranny of a majority in walking over the rights of a minority.
On occasion we are seeing that, and today is a good example. We will wait to see how the NDP and Bloc—