Madam Speaker, I always enjoy listening to my esteemed colleague. I have a great deal of respect for his judgment and his ability to have respectful and productive debates.
However, I have some serious questions about the debate we are currently having. I tend to agree with the Conservatives that the government should hand over the documents that are required, for all sorts of reasons that have been explained at least 100 times in recent months and that I will not revisit, but I wonder whether we are going to turn the page at some point.
I am sure that my colleague would like us to address the important issues that we were elected to address, as would I. There is the passing of the budget. There are measures to help struggling families. There are all kinds of bills and all kinds of measures that need to be passed. However, we are stuck with an ongoing process that is obviously completely pointless.
Does he think it is possible for the official opposition to agree to turn the page, despite the criticisms that need to be levelled at the government? I am stating that we will be with them on this, that we too have criticisms of the government. However, we could move on and get back to our regular business so we can do our work.
I will close by saying that ever since I was first elected, every time there is an election, people ask me whether I am going to run again. I always reply that I will run on two conditions. The first is that I still have to be enjoying what I am doing. The second is that I need to feel useful. Right now I have to say that I am beginning to have doubts about the second condition.