Mr. Sweet, the member accused me of trying to help the member questioning, and I don't appreciate that at all. I don't think that's fair to the chair. We certainly didn't do it to the previous chair. If that's the respect with which certain members want to treat the chair, then I take offence to it. It's not the way parliamentarians conduct themselves.
And I wasn't trying to help any member in their examination; I was trying to carry out these proceedings to the best of my ability.
It's a difficult issue. The questions are long. There are long preambles. Sometimes it is difficult with the answers, but I do not appreciate a suggestion being made that I am trying to help a member, and that's what I was having to deal with, Mr. Sweet.
I know it wasn't you, but that's the situation we dealt with here today.