Mr. Speaker, I want to pick up on something my colleague from Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke said. It was not quite phrased this way, but she said that the Liberal backbenchers had failed to take the actions that could replace the Prime Minister.
I want to draw the House's attention to the admirable private member's bill from the member for Wellington—Halton Hills, generally known as the Reform Act. It put into place changes to the Parliament of Canada Act wherein each caucus of recognized parties has an opportunity, after an election, to decide whether to accept them or not. So far, to give credit for grassroots democracy, only the Conservative Party has adopted the Reform Act.
What allows the Conservatives to be in compliance, basically, with the practice of every other Westminster parliamentary democracy around the world is that a caucus can choose to remove its leader. For example, the Conservative caucus in the U.K. removed Margaret Thatcher and replaced her with John Major.
I recall the events that occurred on the floor. My recollection, as an eyewitness to the events in 2016, was not that the Prime Minister attempted to disrupt democracy but that numerous opposition members were blocking the passage of legislation for House leaders to go forward to the Speaker. It is good for the Speaker to know what our former colleague, Geoff Regan, did not: We do not have to wait for the House leaders to march forward. He could read the motion and the question, put it to a vote and not be concerned about obstruction, which was quite against our rules.