Mental Health and Addictions  Mr. Speaker, that member needs to unplug from the wall, replug and reboot. He is not listening to the earlier questions. We have told them, very clearly, that B.C. has requested changes, and we are working with B.C. to make those changes. Maybe that member will tell us, specifically, which freedoms and which rights described in the 42-year-old Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which Canadians cherish, he will be advocating for removing from Canadian women and from Canadian people.

Mental Health and Addictions  Mr. Speaker, that question has been asked many times and answered many times by my hon. colleague, the minister. I want to know something. The member is a female member of her caucus. This morning, a headline reads, “Conservatives don’t rule out using notwithstanding clause beyond criminal justice matters”.

Mental Health and Addictions  Mr. Speaker, for 50 years, women in the U.S. have lived under the protection of Roe v. Wade. For 42 years, women in Canada have lived under the protection of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Conservatives will now not rule out using the notwithstanding clause beyond criminal justice matters.

Mental Health and Addictions  Mr. Speaker, that question has been asked and answered. B.C. has been making adjustments to its pilot project. Of course, we are supporting that. I had no luck with the last member. Let me ask this member if Conservatives will not rule out using the notwithstanding clause—

Mental Health and Addictions  Mr. Speaker, of course, B.C. is making adjustments to its pilot project, and we are supporting it in that endeavour. The member should be under no ambiguity about that. However, the member is ambiguous, just like his previous colleague, about which charter protections his party would rip up.

Mental Health and Addictions  Mr. Speaker, ever since the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was born 42 years ago, Canadians have had confidence that their federal government will respect their charter-guaranteed rights and freedoms. Now the Conservative Party will not say that it has promised to tear up the Charter of Rights in matters of criminal justice.

Mental Health and Addictions  Mr. Speaker, of course British Columbia is proposing adjustments to its pilot project and we support them. Our approach is and always has been to save lives and reduce the risk to our communities. That is what we are committed to doing. We have nothing to learn from the Conservative Party and the failure of its immoral policy, that even an adviser to Stephen Harper described as immoral and antiquated.

Mental Health and Addictions  Mr. Speaker, the member opposite knows full well that no active requests have been made by authorities in Montreal, Quebec or elsewhere, so this pilot project will not be extended to Quebec or Montreal. He is well aware of that, and I would invite him to watch what he says about that.

Business of the House  Mr. Speaker, on that question I can assure the hon. member that whatever we do, we will do with the elected premier of British Columbia and not the member for Regina—Qu'Appelle. On the Thursday question, this afternoon we will continue with debate on Bill C-49, the Canada—Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic accord implementation and offshore renewable energy management act, which has had great support obviously from my colleagues from Atlantic Canada.

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, I have answered that question. I would once again invite members from all sides of this House to be very, very careful with the words that they utter.

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, I just gave that answer.

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, as I said earlier in response to our other hon. friend, the minister has always followed the strict ethics rules that apply to him as an elected official. Canada has one of the strictest ethics regimes in the world for elected officials, and that is exactly what Canadians expect.

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, in this House, all members are entitled to be treated by other members with a presumption of being honourable. That is not what this member has just done. I would invite him to carefully consider the words he just employed while doing a speech into a television camera, one that he would never do were we outside this chamber.

Ethics  Mr. Speaker, the minister has always followed the very strict ethics rules that apply to him as an elected official. Canada has one of the strictest ethics regimes in the world for elected officials, and that is exactly what Canadians expect. The minister has always conducted himself in an ethical manner that follows the spirit and letter of those rules.

Finance  Mr. Speaker, last week we saw the Leader of the Opposition, once again, encourage supporters of white supremacy, anarchy and misogyny. This has been a regular occurrence. He draws the admiration of people who dismiss the slaughter of children in schools. The Leader of the Opposition now has 30 seconds to speak to this House and to Canadians, once I sit down.