Mr. Speaker, I am not pleased to rise to speak to this yet again. I am aware that we are now at the point where we have had over 200 Conservative people speak to this particular issue. It is extremely troubling that the Conservative Party of Canada is completely disregarding the needs of Canadians and has chosen to filibuster the entire House and prevent it from doing any work whatsoever.
All we have to do is look back at what has happened over the last couple of months. The Speaker had made a ruling in favour of an individual who raised a question of privilege. In that ruling, he agreed that this issue should go to PROC, which is the procedure and House affairs committee, to be dealt with. Unfortunately, Conservatives chose to use that opportunity to force this issue to be debated endlessly.
Let us just reflect on what has actually happened. The Conservatives moved a motion, based on the Speaker's ruling, that this particular issue go to PROC and that PROC deal with it. Conservatives moved it; it was their motion. They have now put up over 200 speakers. They do not have 200 members in the House. They have had multiple people speak multiple times. I have seen people get up and give speeches that were written for them or generated by AI on a number of occasions.
People I have not even seen in the House in so long are coming out of the woodwork and giving speeches on this issue. They are interested in one thing only, and that is delaying the government's ability to do any work whatsoever.