I want to thank the member for his comments today.

I know that when going to university, I always felt it was a house for freedom of expression. You got to be who you wanted to be and to really say what you wanted to say. So I know many members of our House were alarmed when we saw that at the federal level, MP Charlie Angus tabled Bill C-372, which is a private member’s bill that seeks to prescribe jail terms for speaking well of fossil fuels. Do you know what? I’m not here to discuss the potential uses or harms associated with fossil fuels, but I’m incredibly concerned by the Orwellian rhetoric of the opposition’s federal cousins. We’ve seen an onslaught against free speech in the public domain and at our province’s universities.

Bill 166 aims to bolster free speech at our universities. Will you vote for free speech or will you send students to 1984?