Thank you, Madam Chair.
It's nice to be back in Centre Block again, even though we don't have the technology that we do in some of our other committee rooms. It would be nice to look at getting that available, especially the Internet. It helps in doing some research, as you're doing committee work. It's funny that in this building we don't have access to that.
Thank you very much.
Well, let's just recap where we're to on this particular motion. We've got a motion from the parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister, who is again not here today to discuss his own motion before this very committee. His motion called on Mr. Adam Carroll, former Liberal Research Bureau employee, for one meeting to examine his use of House of Commons resources in order to conceal his anonymous public attacks on a member of Parliament, and that this meeting take place, as amended by Ms. Davidson, by Thursday, March 13, 2012.
The Speaker had ruled on this very question that this case of privilege is now closed, and then the parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister came to this committee. I'd like to quote him here: “I don't see any relevance of a ruling by the Speaker of the House of Commons.”
Obviously the parliamentary secretary to the Prime Minister has no confidence in his own Speaker.
The chair then ruled the motion out of order, that it doesn't relate to this committee, and gave a ruling.
Once again the rogue Conservatives at this committee didn't get their own way, so they overturned—