As I mentioned in my opening statement, while the usual process would be that discipline would be by the House or by a committee of the House, you could choose to set up a process under which the ultimate decision on discipline is made by an external body, and that is automatically applied either by the whip or by the clerk. You may decide that's not in the public interest. It's a difficult question. Is the public interest in encouraging complaints to be made, and therefore keeping the process confidential for that reason? Should that outweigh the public interest in the disciplining of a member of Parliament for engaging in this kind of conduct being transparent and public, and having Canadians know about the facts of the particular case? Those are very difficult interests to weigh.
But I think it is available to you to come up with a process whereby the disciplining isn't being done by the House.