Madam Speaker, as I have said before, there are some deeply held principles at stake here, and I for one, as a member, want to force the government to admit it was wrong and that it has to follow up with what Parliament has asked of it.
As long as members want to get up and continue debate, I support that. This member can talk about the trade-offs, but that is something he should be talking about with the Prime Minister and cabinet, who have not given the law clerk what Parliament ordered them to. That is the fastest way to end this. We would have this go to PROC right away. Unfortunately, this is the only mechanism we seem to have.
I hope other Liberal members of Parliament will be at the caucus meeting tomorrow with that member and the Prime Minister and knock some sense into them, figuratively, by communicating that they need to stop this stonewalling of Parliament.