Madam Speaker, I rise today to speak to this concurrence motion. It appears as though we will end this parliamentary session the same way we started it, which was with Conservative gimmicks and antics.
For those who are just tuning in today, the Conservatives moved a concurrence motion that had been sitting on the table for quite a while, and then they proceeded to put a number of amendments to it. The unfortunate reality for Conservatives is that all of the amendments they put forward have dates on them in early January, and unfortunately we will not even get to vote on this until the House resumes in late January. I guess we can chalk this one up as a loss for the Conservatives in that they were not successful in their antics today.
However, I found it very interesting when the member for New Westminster—Burnaby made the comment earlier that the Conservatives put forward this concurrence motion, yet none of them wanted to talk about it. We had two Conservative members get up to speak to this motion, and the first, the member for Caledon, took all of his time congratulating Tamara Jansen, the new—