—three times.... They want to silence those ridings, because that's silencing my voice. They're silencing the voices of our constituents, those who elected us.
I'm going to bring it back to this:
The privileges of the Commons are designed to safeguard the rights of each and every elector.
Amazing!
Then there's this:
For example, the privilege of freedom of speech is secured to Members not for their personal benefit, but to enable them to discharge their functions of representing their constituents.... When a constituency has returned a candidate, it is the electors’ right that this chosen representative should be protected from any kind of improper pressure....
Privilege essentially belongs to the House as a whole.
It goes on and on.
Let me remind you of what the House is, because I believe that is important as well, Mr. Chair. The House is not the government. It's not.
I'll direct it to you.