I'm sorry. Thank you, Madam Chair. I get very excited and, as I said last week, my Newfoundland dialect gets a little away from me at times. I'll continue:
...having been informed on February 26, that it was an employee of the Liberal research bureau who had been responsible for the vikileaks30 site. The interim leader offered his unequivocal apology and that of the Liberal Party to the minister. In view of this unconditional apology made personally by the member and on behalf of his party as a whole, and in keeping with has been done in similar circumstances in the past, I am prepared to consider this particular aspect of the question of privilege closed.
So it's finished—that's my word—“closed”, done, over with, and we respect the ruling of the Speaker. But then we come back to this place and this committee room, which is an offshoot of Parliament, and we hear “No, no, no, it's not closed. It's not dealt with. We want to take this back and revisit this particular thing over again.”
So I say to Mr. Calkins, you can't have it both ways. You can't have it both ways: you can't pick and choose which rules you like to apply to yourself—