Evidence of meeting #144 for Public Accounts in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was point.
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Liberal
Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
Point of order, Mr. Chair. Again, Mr. Bains is being suspected of making that decision at CIBC. It has nothing to do with SDTC. Can we stick to SDTC, please?
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Williamson
The chair let you talk about what you wanted to talk about when it was your turn, Mr. Perkins and goodness knows what else. Mr. Bains is perfectly capable of speaking for himself, so he can answer the questions Ms. Sinclair‑Desgagné is respectfully asking him.
Ms. Sinclair‑Desgagné, you have the floor.
Bloc
Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné Bloc Terrebonne, QC
I think some people are afraid of the answers Mr. Bains might give.
I'll start over. Ms. Batool followed you to CIBC—
Liberal
Liberal
Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
It has nothing to do with the decision. If Ms. Sinclair‑Desgagné suspects that Mr. Bains made the decision to hire—
Conservative
Liberal
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Williamson
You're beyond thin ice, because we just listened to you. The chair allowed you to go on for six minutes—
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Williamson
Yes, and I stopped the clock every time that happened to give you your time, but now, for you to jump in and say that another member who's trying to put questions to the witness can't be allowed to do so, I'm not sure who you think you are.
Liberal
Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
Mr. Chair, I think about the relevancy of this. Why are we here? We are here to study SDTC, not CIBC, not Rogers, not anything else, just SDTC.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Williamson
The member's questions are going exactly in that direction.
Go ahead, Ms. Khalid.
Liberal
Iqra Khalid Liberal Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON
On a point of order, I take exception to your questioning who Mr. Drouin thinks he is. He is a member of Parliament with the exact same privileges that we all have in this committee.
I don't think—
Liberal
Iqra Khalid Liberal Mississauga—Erin Mills, ON
Exactly. We have the privileges that we have within this committee, and I don't think that is something you should be calling out.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Williamson
That is correct, and Mr. Drouin was given an opportunity to speak.
Madame Sinclair-Desgagné is now speaking, and it's not up to Mr. Drouin to suddenly decide that what another member is asking is relevant or not.
Liberal
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Williamson
Well, again, I ruled on it, and now I'm moving on.
Mr. Perkins, you also had a point of order.
Conservative
Rick Perkins Conservative South Shore—St. Margarets, NS
My point of order is about Mr. Drouin. From the moment I asked my first question, within the first minute, he was interrupting. He chose as a tactic to try and disrupt every single sentence I said.
He's now doing it to the Bloc member. It's a specific tactic to disrupt the committee, and because of his disruptive behaviour, I would ask you to consider that you not allow him to speak, or remove him from the committee.
Liberal
Francis Drouin Liberal Glengarry—Prescott—Russell, ON
I would ask the same favour for Mr. Perkins, who interrupted me.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative John Williamson
Gentlemen, let's try to proceed with this.
I would ask that Madame Sinclair-Desgagné be allowed to continue her questioning.