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.
