Madam Speaker, under the rules the Chair has to be satisfied on a number of issues. First, notice has to be given to the Chair describing briefly the essence of the point of privilege. The Chair will decide whether that has been properly done. The exception is if the event occurred as a result of something that was going on during the current deliberations of the House, in other words, immediately prior to the raising of the question of privilege.
As I understand it, this is an event which occurred in a committee. We do not have before the House a report from that committee in which the committee itself alleges that there was a contempt. None of that was produced before the House, except a long speech by a member before the House and before Madam Speaker today, without satisfying in a brief way and in the customary manner, what the question of privilege was.
Citation 114 of Beauchesne talks about raising a point of privilege and citation 865 tells us the procedure to be utilized when such a point refers to the proceedings of a committee.
If something is generated from a committee, it seems to me that we should have before the House a report from that committee which attests to the fact that there has been such a breach and then the House can judge on the contents of the report which makes that allegation.