I'll speak again later.
What happened on Friday was outrageous, indeed. We should never have been asked to stand in the House in the situation we found ourselves in. It's important to get to the bottom of what happened, to find out exactly how this person was able to enter the House of Commons, and to determine how we can prevent this kind of situation in the future. I think this is important. If we had known that he was a Nazi, or a former Nazi, regardless of whether or not he still pledged allegiance to that movement, no one in the House would have stood up. This person would not normally have been in the House of Commons, let alone occupying a seat of honour.
That said, despite my colleague's comments, I am of the opinion that it is the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs that must validate House procedures, and I don't mean that as an excuse. I think it makes sense that it's up to that committee to check its own functions and its own ways of doing things.
I'm not sure what availability we're talking about when we say that the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates is available to study this file. We have seven or eight studies in progress that we have yet to complete, some of them very lengthy. It would be another case of postponing very important studies.
We'll be able to talk about it, but I suggest postponing the debate or asking the chair to write a letter to the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs so that it can begin the study proposed in this motion. There's no way I'm going to say no and dismiss this motion out of hand. I think it's important that this situation be studied, but it must be done by the right committee.