I'll be really brief. I'm as committed as Ms. Sims to parliamentary privilege and I've stood in the House to defend that in recent weeks. However, there is a difference between saying that debate needs to be free and debate is being trivialized by these endless proceedings. In exercise of your discretion, Mr. Chair, I would just be concerned that Canadians would start to wonder if we're accomplishing anything effective here if we trivialize the debate by what's going on.
On June 13th, 2013. See this statement in context.