Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to everyone who has spoken today. I certainly want to commend the Standing Committee on Rules and Procedures for all the work that they have done.

I had a big script laid out. Of course, it speaks a lot to exactly what most everybody has already spoken about here today. It has points with regard to what we are working on as the government relevant to the systemic issues that we face, especially around violence. It was going to speak to how I see this recommendation as setting double standards. I was going to speak to how we have to protect democracy. I was going to speak to how we need to leave it to the electorate to make the decisions on who they best feel will serve them in this House.

Then my colleague from the Deh Cho spoke. At the end of the day, this is about how we conduct ourselves. That is what this recommendation and all these recommendations are about. I look to my colleague, and I can certainly advocate and I think that most here in this room see the honourable Member as a voice of reason. Certainly, someone who has shared not only his personal experiences with us in the last year and change that we have been here, but he leads by example as a political figure here and shares a lot of wisdom with us. If there is anybody in here who I feel that I have learned from, as it relates to conduct, it is the honourable Member from the Deh Cho.

I feel that when we use that word, "honourable," that it is something that we hold up in the highest regard. I can honestly say that when it comes to this particular individual, he has had probably the most effect on me as it relates to the standard that is expected to conduct yourself in this House. I think we learned once again today as to why it is we really feel that this Member from the Deh Cho is, and ought to be, held in the highest regard.

I won't add my voice as it relates to all of the other points that everybody has raised. I think that everyone knows that my position is that I cannot support this recommendation. For those reasons, I won't be able to support it. Thank you, Mr. Chair.