Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
These fine folks here do work for Parliament, so I'm sure they would make themselves available to come back if it were deemed necessary.
A lot has been said about missing rules or regulations, gaps, etc., but I just want to get a clear state of where we actually are.
Notwithstanding the labour code issues and everything that's been brought up, we already have criminal sanctions for harassment. We have criminal sanctions for hate speech in the Criminal Code. We also have civil law dealing with libel and/or slander, which I'm not sure has been fully tested when it comes to parliamentary privilege. In the context of those provisions being there, we also have a Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is premised largely upon the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which gives us freedom of speech and freedom of expression.
At what point do we encroach on parliamentary privilege and on freedom of rights, including freedom of expression, and why aren't the other mechanisms that I talked about, the criminal sanctions and the civil sanctions, enough to govern this space?