Information & Ethics Committee on Oct. 29th, 2013

[Paul Calandra, Conservative, Oak Ridges—Markham, ON]

Could you repeat the quote, because I didn't get it.

[Mathieu Ravignat, NDP, Pontiac, QC]

I'd be happy to repeat it, yes.

Essentially, under the rubric of “conservatism”:

• belief in the value of established and traditional practices in politics and society

• dislike of change or new ideas....

in a political setting.

[Paul Calandra, Conservative, Oak Ridges—Markham, ON]

Just one more point of clarification.

I know the member ran for the Marxist–Leninist Party. I wonder if he has a definition of that as well which he might be able to read out.

[Mathieu Ravignat, NDP, Pontiac, QC]

I actually didn't. You've got the wrong party, but—

[Paul Calandra, Conservative, Oak Ridges—Markham, ON]

Was it the Communist Party? I'm not sure which it was, but I wonder if he has that definition handy as well.

[An hon. member]

Bolsheviks.

[Paul Calandra, Conservative, Oak Ridges—Markham, ON]

Is that what it was? Oh, okay.

[The Chair, NDP, Pat Martin]

Mr. Calandra, you don't have a point of order.

[Mathieu Ravignat, NDP, Pontiac, QC]

If I may continue, there's—

[Paul Calandra, Conservative, Oak Ridges—Markham, ON]

Sorry, Mr. Angus's point has got me—

[The Chair, NDP, Pat Martin]

Yes, I know. Well, we're setting the bar kind of—

[Mathieu Ravignat, NDP, Pontiac, QC]

Red-baiting went out of style with McCarthyism, by the way.

It only points to the fact that what you are is not a conservative party, you're an authoritarian party. That was my point, and thank you for making that so obvious.

[Paul Calandra, Conservative, Oak Ridges—Markham, ON]

A point of order.

[Mathieu Ravignat, NDP, Pontiac, QC]

By the way, I'm not in front of the committee—

[The Chair, NDP, Pat Martin]

Order.

Excuse me, Mr. Ravignat, we have a—

[Mathieu Ravignat, NDP, Pontiac, QC]

—being called out on a witch hunt.

[The Chair, NDP, Pat Martin]

Excuse me, Mr. Ravignat—

[Mathieu Ravignat, NDP, Pontiac, QC]

I'm speaking as a member of Parliament.

[The Chair, NDP, Pat Martin]

Order. We have a point of order.

Mr. Calandra.

[Paul Calandra, Conservative, Oak Ridges—Markham, ON]

Mr. Chair, I respect your judgment. Certainly the NDP opposition—I don't want to say the Liberal opposition because they're not—have become very angry, and the language they're using is, I think, very offensive—

[Charlie Angus, NDP, Timmins—James Bay, ON]

That's not a point of order. That's just a silly intervention.

[Paul Calandra, Conservative, Oak Ridges—Markham, ON]

—to committee. I wonder if you would just watch the inappropriate language that they're using—

[Mathieu Ravignat, NDP, Pontiac, QC]

I had the floor. Could—

[Charlie Angus, NDP, Timmins—James Bay, ON]

It's not a point of order.

[Paul Calandra, Conservative, Oak Ridges—Markham, ON]

—so that Canadians don't have to be subjected to such inappropriate language, because, as they say, they are watching at home.