On a point of order, Mr. Chair, this committee is clearly being filibustered for the second time recently.The official languages committee has now shut down because of government mischief. There is another committee, procedure and House affairs, that is being filibustered and shut down.
In other words, democracy is grinding to halt all over Parliament Hill. This Parliament is out of gas.
My point of order is this. I need to ask the clerk for his legal opinion, but at what point does this become a constitutional crisis needing the Governor General to intervene? If the government refuses to let Parliament do its work in a consistent pattern all across Parliament Hill, are we not in a constitutional crisis, where we're being denied our right to govern as the Parliament of the day? it's a technical question to our clerk.