Yes.
I thank the clerk for his intervention. In light of that, the problem we're dealing with is that the Westminster tradition is unlike the U.S. system. The U.S. system believed there would be all manner of skullduggery, so they put in so many checks and balances they can't seem to get their legislative car started on any morning anymore.
We're based on a different thing, which is sort of a...well, it's a sexist term now, but it was a gentleman's code. There was a way parliamentarians were supposed to behave: gentlemen, gentlewomen. The Speaker would normally say that the committees are the masters of their own houses. That would be the Speaker's ruling, because there's a sense that we're all here to act in the larger interest, and then our committees would also take up on that. But when you see that the committee is being used as a back door to undermine the independent rights of members in this House, this isn't the gentleman's code anymore; it's very much the parcel of rogues in a nation.