Mr. Speaker, again, if we read the language that Madame Dawson chose very carefully about the member for West Nova, if he was in contravention of the section 8 and section of the code, it was not by design, it was by accident. He inadvertently found himself in that situation and there was no fault assigned, or blame or accusation that he conspired to be in violation of the code. It was one of those inadvertent things that happened by a series of events beyond his control.
This is another good reason why we need to amend the Conflict of Interest Code, because it could happen to any one of us tomorrow morning. It may be happening to me right now as I speak. Somebody could be filing papers in some courtroom somewhere, saying that I said something libellous and I would be barred and precluded from raising that subject until the court case had played itself out, which as we know could be 18 months or 2 years down the road. This is an impossible situation and it cries out to be corrected.