Madam Speaker, it is a good question. It is precisely the type of question this is raising. I certainly hope for this country's sake that the Conservatives change their direction.
The Conservatives keep talking about this being a gag order. It is not. The most important thing they are skipping over is that it would allow their leader to take action. Leaders of political parties get to assign members of their caucus to various committees and various parliamentary roles, but they also get to sign their nomination papers to run under the party banner in the next election. Even if the leader cannot speak publicly about it, he can take the actions necessary in his caucus to make sure that any potential compromised member is not running as a Conservative MP in the next election and is not sitting in the House of Commons.