What I want to say is that I absolutely believe we have a fifth estate. There is a reason for that. I believe in freedom of speech. I respect that. I believe in open and transparent government. I will always support and respect those.
Notwithstanding all of that, we have a question of privilege that's been raised by a member. What we're here to do now is to debate that. I think people have already gathered how I may feel about that question of privilege, but in order to be fair to the member, I need to see what he is raising. I don't have that, and I don't have a hard copy of that.
We're here to discuss an extension, but now we're looking at a question of privilege, and the privilege actually refers to some comments. I don't know where my colleague intends to go with this privilege and what the chair is going to say about it, but in the meantime, I have to express what we're here to do. What we're here to do is ensure discussion on the recommendation that asks for an extension so that it gives the government an opportunity to go to the House to seek an expanded scope to change the content of a bill that a private member has put forward.