Mr. Speaker, my colleague has tried to put on a brave face, but a basic civics course would let them know who the actual government is. The government is across the way, both from me and my colleague who just asked the question. At least, that used to be the way it was, until he and his leader signed on to a supply and confidence agreement; by the way, that agreement enabled this kind of behaviour for the last two-plus years.
It is a bit rich to hear my colleague talking about this. I am a member of the procedure and House affairs committee, and he has said at procedure and House affairs while I have been there that, if this issue goes towards the committee, it will get buried; it will get mired down in the committee. He knows this full well.
This is the appropriate place to be having this debate. This is the stage of the business of the nation. We need to have that discussion and have it out right here in front of all Canadians, not buried away in some obscure committee in the basement of this place.