Madam Speaker, we're not, because the NDP kind of beat them to it. However, that is a side issue for right now.
The point is that the House should be dealing with the substantive measures of legislation actually before the House. Every day, legislation is called upon. The fall economic statement is being presented next Monday as a direct result of the behaviour of the official opposition.
For those who want to follow what has taken place, let us go back eight or nine weeks, and one will find that issues of this nature, dealing with benefits for veterans' spouses, are being debated in this fashion, today, because of a motion the Conservative Party brought forward then. That motion, which was actually introduced by the Conservative Party, was to have a report brought to the procedure and House affairs committee. The Conservatives have put up speaker after speaker, and now, I believe that there have been well over 200 speakers on that motion of privilege.
In order to change the topic, we have seen different opposition parties bringing forward concurrence reports. The purpose of that, from the Conservative Party's perspective, is just to talk about anything but the privilege issue because Conservative members have run out of things to say repeatedly on the privilege issue. The Bloc and the NDP have brought in concurrence reports because they are tired of listening to the Conservatives talk about the privilege issue and the Conservative concurrence reports.
The government has been looking to any opposition party for that change, whether it is the Conservatives, which is not likely, whether it is the Bloc, which is not as likely, or whether it is, possibly, the NDP. The concurrence report brought forward today, dealing with benefits for veterans' spouses, upon the death of veterans, is here—