Mr. Speaker, I would like to answer the member because I think he has made a good point. In the point of privilege the member for Rimouski—Mitis said the deputy principal clerk sent a letter to the office, et cetera. Her concern, as I understand it, was that 700 motions had been rejected. Two of them had never been officially submitted.
Also, as I understand it, the staff were working from their data base because they had worked with the member opposite to prepare these amendments. With 700 amendments on their data base, they did not go through them line by line and check them all off. Two of them were not included in the total number submitted. I think they probably made a mistake, but does that justify an attack on them? Surely not.