Information & Ethics Committee on May 10th, 2007

[The Chair, Liberal, Tom Wappel]

I'm asking you to draw your remarks to a conclusion now.

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

You can ask me, but I'd like to make a point of order.

[The Chair, Liberal, Tom Wappel]

If you're not going to tell me what your point of order is, I'm going to have the mike turned off.

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

You're going to turn my mike off?

[The Chair, Liberal, Tom Wappel]

I'm sorry. I will rule that you have no point of order if you don't tell me--

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

You're going to turn my mike off.

[The Chair, Liberal, Tom Wappel]

I'm going to turn your mike off if you do not tell me what your point of order is.

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

I'm in the process of telling you what my point of order is.

[The Chair, Liberal, Tom Wappel]

You must tell me now.

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

I am, if you'll let me do that. I will tell you now.

[The Chair, Liberal, Tom Wappel]

Right now.

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

Okay.

Mr.--

[The Chair, Liberal, Tom Wappel]

Right now, Mr. Tilson.

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

I am going to do that.

[The Chair, Liberal, Tom Wappel]

Go ahead.

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

You know, you've got to let me make my point of order.

[The Chair, Liberal, Tom Wappel]

Go ahead.

[David Tilson, Conservative, Dufferin—Caledon, ON]

Okay.

Mr. Peterson--

[Robert Vincent, Bloc, Shefford, QC]

I have a point of order, Mr. Chairman. Earlier, I asked to be given a few seconds to raise a point of order.

[The Chair, Liberal, Tom Wappel]

Mr. Vincent, you're interrupting a point of order, but what is it?

[Robert Vincent, Bloc, Shefford, QC]

Mr. Tilson's point of order dealt with whether the motion is in order. He said that Ms. Lavallée's motion is not proper or in order. His point of order addressed that, but now he is discussing the substance of the motion. So, his point of order no longer relates to whether the motion is in order. His speaking time on the point of order is now up. You gave him one minute, but that minute is now up. So, you should call him to order, move on to something else and put it to a vote.

[The Chair, Liberal, Tom Wappel]

In fact, in his opening remarks, he said he had several points of order. One point of order was that the committee did not have jurisdiction to deal with this. I ruled that out of order. Then he had another point of order, which I ruled out of order. Now he's going to the third one, and I'm asking him to come to a conclusion and tell me what the point of order is so that I can rule on it.

[Carole Lavallée, Bloc, Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert, QC]

Mr. Chairman—

[The Chair, Liberal, Tom Wappel]

Madame Lavallée.

[Carole Lavallée, Bloc, Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert, QC]

—this is not a point of order; it's a filibuster. Last week, I told him that this is what he always does, and he got on his high horses.