Mr. Speaker, I thank the member, who is the chair of the justice committee, for his speech, although I note that when he talks about the hours of debate on Bill C-9, he misses the fact that we have had no opportunity to hear witnesses on the removal of the religious defence, because it was snuck in as an amendment thanks to an agreement between the Liberal and Bloc members.
Once again, we have a Liberal saying that people should not worry, that their religious freedoms would not be touched because the charter protects religious freedoms.
Let me ask this very pointedly. The member's predecessor as committee chair was promoted to cabinet a couple of weeks after he said that it would be, in his view, justifiable for prosecutors to charge people for quoting certain verses of scripture. Does he denounce that comment?