Before proceeding to the period of questions and comments following the intervention from the hon. member for Terrebonne, I would like to bring some clarification to the issue of naming either members of Parliament or senators.
Those comments are from the Annotated Standing Orders and refer to Standing Order 18(3): "What is acceptable depends largely on the circumstances, but personal attacks, insults, obscene language or words which question a Members' or a
Senators' integrity, honesty, or character are not in order. To reduce the possibility of personal references, convention further requires Members to refer to each other by title, position or constituency name. Likewise, the Senate is usually "the other place," and Senators, "members of the other place".
I simply wanted to make this clarification for the benefit of the House during the rest of the debate, until 10 p.m. this evening. Resuming debate.