It works.
Mr. Speaker, what does it work for, as was reported earlier this week? It works for gold stars in caucus meetings, so members can be paraded around and celebrate how many times one member said a particular slogan. It works. I will pick up on that heckle. When the member says that it works, he is fully admitting that they are just throwing out slogans to try to persuade people. They do not care about policy or anything else; they are just throwing out stuff to try to fool Canadians. What response do I get when I say that? It is that it works. Conservatives are admitting that their plan to fool Canadians with their slogans is working. That is, ultimately, where we are.
Why is this so important, and how does it tie back to this particular motion? As I said earlier, Conservatives are absolutely only interested in their own political agenda. They are only interested in what they can possibly gain politically, and they have zero interest in what they could do to support Canadians. This is where we are. My friends in the Bloc and the NDP know how to work with us. We have done it before. There is no reason to continue allowing Conservatives to do this.
Conservatives have to accept the fact that 213 of their members getting up to speak for half an hour is enough. At some point, people are going to start asking why that is. People know there is really important legislation they thought the government would be debating this fall, but it is not being debated.