I appreciate the new-found passion that the Conservatives have for independent members, because we can recall that when an independent member's bill was at committee, the Conservatives were gutting that very same legislation and denied her the ability to even address her own piece of legislation, claiming the very rules that we are talking about here today.
Je suis heureux que les conservateurs attachent soudainement de l'importance aux députés indépendants. On se souviendra, en effet, que lorsque le projet de loi d'une députée indépendante a été soumis au comité, les conservateurs l'ont démoli.