Mr. Speaker, our safety as parliamentarians, those who are in this place and also our staff, should be of utmost importance in this place, and so I will continue.
I had a staff member from another member of Parliament's office knock on my door and advise me that PPS was going to be removing protesters and I should keep my door locked because officers were bringing them through my hallway. Why did PPS let members' staff in the building in the first place, given there was an occupation going on and it was not removing these people? Why did PPS not advise me, all the office staff and other members down our hallway of what its plan was? Why did PPS not remove the members of Parliament and staff who were down the hallway before it started removing the people who were illegally occupying the Confederation building, making it—