Thank you, Mr. Karygiannis.
I'm going to refer to O'Brien and Bosc, House of Commons Procedure and Practice. This is the first time I've done this, with this book, but here we go.
I'm going to refer you to page 1050, which talks about questions of privilege in committee. I'm going to quote from it, and then I'm going to make a ruling.
It reads:
The Chair of a committee does not have the power to rule on questions on privilege; only the Speaker has that power. If a Member wishes to raise a question of privilege during a committee meeting or an incident arises in connection with the committee's proceedings that may constitute a breach of privilege, the committee Chair allows the Member to explain the situation.
And I have done that.
The Chair then determines whether the question raised in fact relates to parliamentary privilege. If the Chair determines that the question does relate to parliamentary privilege, the committee may then consider presenting a report on the question to the House.
Then it outlines what the report should do.
Responding to that statement--namely, “The Chair then determines whether the question raised in fact relates to parliamentary privilege”--I will rule that it does not.