Mr. Speaker, let me make it very clear to you, to all the members of the House and to the member who just spoke that we had a conversation below this place on the first floor. It was very much a debate thrust in a difference of opinion. I was making it very clear to the members, this member from New Brunswick particularly, that I thought their comments about a particular ex-member of the House were unbecoming of this place because they were throwing insults, allegations and slander when they would not do it outside the House.
That was the conversation. There was no intimidation. It was very much a debate that we have in this place all the time. I think it demeans the House when people say things like that about members, whether they are here or not, or whether they have gone on to another profession.
The only thing we have in this place is our name. Once we leave this place, if one slanders a person's name continuously in this place without any information to back it up—and I said to the member to say it outside and he refused to say it outside—