Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. During question period the member for Dartmouth raised a question in respect of her concerns about policy with regard to the disabled.
After referring to her disappointment that a certain committee was not set up to deal exclusively with the disabled, she then went on to ask a question of the government, presumably of the minister in charge of the disabled, as to how the minister would look after the concerns of the disabled in the absence of the committee she thought should be struck.
The government House leader then rose and contended that the question was out of order. There are two things here. The government House leader should not have been rising in the first place because the question was not about committee business.
However he contended, while he was on his feet, that it would have been out of order for the member to have asked the question, which is the question she did not ask. He maintained that it would have been out of order had she asked about the restructuring of committees. I contend—