It is hard to know how there could be a supplementary question of privilege. The Chair is prepared to deal with this at the moment. I have heard the two sides and I had real difficulty in even allowing this. This is clearly a dispute between members about what happened in a committee. In my view the matter should be dealt with in the committee.
If the member has a disagreement with the minister, I suggest he get the committee to call the minister back. The minister can attend with any documents that might need to be tabled and they could be tabled there. He can answer questions from the member and could indeed suggest remedies to the member for dealing with these matters, if there is a dispute.
This is not one in my opinion that involves the privileges of the member or of members of the House as defined in the works on this subject, including Maingot's description of privilege in the House and the description contained in Marleau and Montpetit.
In my view this is an inappropriate place for this matter to be raised. It is a matter that was raised originally in committee. The dispute arose out of committee proceedings and the matter ought to be settled in the committee and not here. I invite the hon. member to do so.
I do not want to get into an argument. By having allowed the matter to go this far, we have obvious disputes as to the facts and what happened in committee and what should happen between one side and another. I am not prepared to continue to go on with this because I know the hon. member will say this is what he wants and the minister will want to say what he wants. I am not prepared to allow this to continue here because in my view this is an appropriate matter for the committee and not for the House.