Colleagues, yesterday in the House we had an unfortunate incident and there was an allegation of the use of unparliamentary language by some of our members of Parliament.
I have discussed the situation with the Speaker who was here at the time. I have reviewed not only the blues but Hansard . I have reviewed the video tapes and also the sound tracks.
In my view, for whatever reason, unparliamentary language was used in the Chamber and I would like to remedy that situation because the two members of Parliament who were involved are in the Chamber now.
This is the situation as I understand it. One member of Parliament for the Reform Party, the member for Okanagan-Shuswap, was on his feet giving a speech and in the course of his speech there were exchanges. According to Hansard and according to what I heard and saw, the hon. member for Scarborough Centre interjected a word. That word I judge to be unparliamentary. Because the hon. member is here now I will address him directly and ask him to please withdraw the statement he made in this House yesterday.