Madam Speaker, this is amazing. I am being heckled by the parliamentary secretary to the government House leader, who is chirping from the sidelines and telling me they do not have to follow the votes of the House of Commons and that the votes in the House of Commons do not need to mean anything.
That might have been what the Prime Minister was getting at when he admired the dictatorship of the PRC: that parliaments do not matter, that votes do not matter and that the government can act with impunity. Is that really what the member for Winnipeg North believes, that the votes of this Parliament should be just disregarded if the government does not like them?
That is not how democracy works, and yes, he has put forward a couple of fairly tired, at this point, arguments against the disclosure of these documents. The time for that argument was in the spring. The ship has sailed. The RCMP is welcome to make no use or any use of these documents. However, the House has pronounced on this matter, and it is about time the government listened to the people who were elected in the House of Commons, and their vote.