Mr. Speaker, on the same point of order, there is $61.9 billion of extra spending in the fall economic statement. I came prepared, and I was at my seat at the time indicated. You went through, in great detail, exactly the process we would follow for the fall economic statement, and the government has reneged. It has done a drop-off, drive-by of a tabling, where the leader of the government spun around and walked right out. That is contemptuous of the adopted motion that we would all be here today to undertake a democratic scrutiny of the government.
The government cannot pick and choose its role. It is subservient to the House. I would ask you to find it in contempt because, obviously, the government is not prepared to allow any other process. This is something that makes not only me and the whole House look bad, it looks terribly on you. I would ask that you would defend our rights as parliamentarians and force, the government through a mechanism, perhaps a contempt motion, and find it in contempt in its duties to the House.