Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Through you, I'd like to ask the witnesses a couple of other questions.
We're not talking about privilege here when we're talking about closing the loophole on MP-to-MP harassment. Let me rephrase that. What I'm talking about is not having healthy debate in the chamber. I think we should absolutely have healthy debate in the chamber. I think we should absolutely be questioning policies, and we should absolutely be providing feedback to improve legislation. However, when it comes to civility in the House sometimes and when it comes to personal attacks, when that kind of behaviour then spills out into social media, so a member is refraining from going to the chamber or participating in debate, or is self-regulating what they say out of fear of all of that happening, we're into privilege.
Can you comment on that? The fact is that if we have members not going into the chamber or not participating in debate out of fear of what's going to come out on social media, in their emails or in phone calls to their constituency, we are now prohibiting MPs from participating, and that is a point of privilege.
Mr. Janse, can you elaborate on that a bit?