Mr. Speaker, I will be very brief with my remarks. To reinforce what my hon. colleague from St. Albert has just said, what we are debating, this particular point of order, strikes to the very essence of this Chamber itself.
Nothing could be more serious than when a political party brings a motion of non-confidence in the Speaker. I cannot imagine what could be more serious. Whether I, my colleagues or other colleagues in the House from whatever party agree with that particular motion is irrelevant. How could the House continue to do its business as long as that black cloud hangs over this place? We must deal with it.
For the government to move to bypass, to circumvent Routine Proceedings in the manner in which it has and to crack the whip on its backbenchers to get them to fall in line and to basically turn their backs on their own rights and privileges just to support their party and the government, is despicable, to be quite blunt.
If this were allowed to continue, as it did yesterday and as the government has moved to do today, I suggest that there is room for each and every member in this Chamber to rise on a point of privilege. It is our privileges that are being usurped by the government trying to wipe Routine Proceedings off the orders of the day and move to its agenda.