Thank you, Mr. Goodyear.
I believe I've ruled on this already. The chair has the discretion under Marleau and Montpetit, and I'll refer you again to page 539 of Marleau and Montpetit on the rules.
As you could appreciate, if the chair had no discretion whether or not to interrupt someone in the middle of an answer or in the middle of a question.... And if a member were concerned about what was going on, or wanted somehow to disrupt it, they could simply on a point of order. As you know, the vast majority of points of order that members have raised have in fact been ruled not to be points of order.
So thank you for raising that, sir, but under the rules, the chair has the discretion to recognize and to stop the proceedings immediately. If it's not clear to the chair why someone has been stopped in mid-sentence, then the chair has some discretion. I don't believe there have been any negative consequences resulting from the—