Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise today to speak to this motion. I thought this issue would have been put to rest given the fact that we have spent a considerable amount of time on it. Nonetheless, Conservatives have chosen to once again bring it before the House and I find that to be very unfortunate and I will tell members why.
For starters, Conservatives were never interested in asking the Speaker to resign until they saw it as a political opportunity. We know that because when the member for Regina—Qu'Appelle first came into this House about two weeks ago to rise on a question of privilege regarding the matter, he did not in his entire question of privilege ask for the Speaker to resign, not once.
As a matter of fact, it was not until the next party member spoke, a member of the Bloc, and called on the Speaker to resign that suddenly the member for Regina—Qu'Appelle came flying back into the room asking the same demand of the Speaker, to resign—