As much as I always welcome the comments of my friend across the way, lecturing or hectoring us about our individual behaviour isn't really appropriate in committee. It's one thing to disagree with me, but telling me that I'm actually not doing what I'm supposed to be doing or that somehow I'm behaving in a certain way is, I believe, not appropriate behaviour for this particular committee or to the witnesses.
Quite frankly, Chair, if he disagrees with me, that's fine, but I don't think it is within the purview of this committee to tell me how I should behave. It's like saying, “I don't like the way you dressed today.” It's slighty inappropriate, I would think, for the parliamentary secretary to suggest that he should tell us how to behave. My mother tells me how to behave. I listen to her.