A point of order. I thought he said it breached the privileges of the House, Mr. Speaker, and that he wanted it ruled out of order because it breached the privileges of the House, because it interfered with our privilege to manage our financial affairs, the financial affairs of the country.
I turn to citation 24 of Beauchesne's sixth edition where it states:
Parliamentary privilege is the sum of the peculiar rights enjoyed by each House collectively as a constituent part of the High Court of Parliament, and by Members of each House individually, without which they could not discharge their functions.
I submit that in the tabling of this report there has been no impedance with members' functions or their ability to discharge their functions. We have here a situation where the hon. member disagrees with some of the contents of the report. I have no doubt the government disagrees with some of the contents of the report as well. I suspect if I read it all as thoroughly as the hon. member obviously has I would probably disagree with parts of the report.
However the place for him to take his complaints is not to the House to have the report ruled out of order. The auditor general has a right to submit his opinions to the House. He is an officer of the House and that is his duty. Surely the hon. member should go to the public accounts committee and complain about the report if he disagrees with it. Then the public accounts committee would report to the House saying it disagrees with the auditor general's report if the committee agrees. Surely that is where this complaint ought to go.
The hon. member has not raised a point of order or a question of privilege in my submission. He has raised what I can only suggest is a complaint. He disagrees with the report, fine. He should go to the committee and express his disagreement. That is what the committee is for. That is why it has been referred there.