Mr. Speaker, I think you might find this rather funny.
When I was an actor, I was fortunate to work with a Quebec director and actress whom some of you may not know, but my colleagues from Quebec might be familiar with her. Her name is Denise Filiatrault. She is very passionate as an actress and has a very unique style.
When we rehearsed scenes for her, if she thought they did not have enough rhythm and cohesion or were not moving fast enough, she would quickly become impatient. She would start yelling from the back of the rehearsal room. I can still picture her, with a cigarette in her mouth, screaming and asking when we would get to the punchline. She was trying to tell us to pick up the pace, find our rhythm and get on with it.
We are really stuck on this issue. I want to know when we are going to get to the punchline. We have been talking about the same thing, the same motion, just this one thing, for three weeks now.
Earlier a colleague mentioned the problem of homelessness in Canada. We want to talk about that. The number of deaths on the streets of Quebec has doubled in recent years. It is shameful that we are not talking about that.
Here, then, is my question for my colleagues: When are we going to get to the punchline? When are we going to vote?