Madam Speaker, I certainly appreciate the member for Regina—Qu'Appelle's interventions because this is an area he knows well, having served both as the House leader for the opposition and as a Speaker.
When I heard of these unfortunate instances with respect to the fundraising and appearances at a provincial Liberal convention, I phoned someone who used to work for a Speaker at the provincial level to ask if he had any prior experience with this kind of thing. Essentially, he said that the one case he was reminded of was when he served for a Speaker who wanted to attend a dinner event alone for his or her party and asked the opposition to make sure that everyone was comfortable with that, what would be a partisan event even as an individual MLA.
I would ask the member if he knows of any parallels for that at the federal level.