Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the member for Calgary Rocky Ridge for pointing out, just moments ago, what the Conservatives are actually doing. We heard him here moments ago; he said that they just want to keep debating the issue until the Liberals cave to their demands. He just said what we have been accusing the Conservatives of all along: filibustering their own motion.
It is not about doing anything that is actually in the interest of Canadians. It is not about sending the issue to committee to be studied, which is what the motion is actually about. It is just about Conservatives' trying to fill up the airtime to prevent anything else in the House from happening. After three weeks, it had to happen eventually; one of them was eventually going to slip and reveal the reason they are doing this.
I would encourage people, folks watching this at home or people who want to review Hansard, to go back and look at what the member for Calgary Rocky Ridge said. He admitted that the Conservatives do not want the issue to go to committee; all they want is for the government to concede or for the government to deliver on what they are asking for. However, that is not what the motion is about. The motion on the question of privilege is about sending the issue to committee so the committee can do its work and send it back to the House so the House can vote on it again.
The member for Calgary Rocky Ridge knows that. Every single Conservative here knows that. Instead, what they are doing is intentionally trying to filibuster this place. They are doing all of it at the expense of getting actual work done for Canadians.
I do not have a lot to say on this. I have quite enjoyed watching Conservative after Conservative get up and ramble on in speeches that are written by somebody probably in a basement room around here somewhere. Some of them, I recognize, have probably not even read the speech once before they read it here. We can tell by the way it is written that they are all written by the exact same person.
I want to let them continue doing that, but I do just want to take the opportunity to thank the member for Calgary Rocky Ridge for finally admitting to the House what the Conservatives are doing and how they are purposely trying to filibuster and delay this place so we cannot do work on behalf of Canadians. He was honest about it. He said it in his question. I know that he is going to want to try to ask me a question when it is time, but the reality is that there is nothing he can say that is going to reverse what he already admitted, which is what their tactic on this whole thing has been.